Comments on: TellMe Launches a Killer Mobile Product

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ôëýø èãð àðõèâ ñêà÷àòü — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:07:00 +0000

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By: ::lemonup:: » Google Launches Free 411 Service

::lemonup:: » Google Launches Free 411 Service — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:10:33 +0000

[...] is also experimenting with free 411 calls. None of these products come anywhere close to as good as TellMe’s rich client business information tool for mobile phones, but few phones support TellMe at this time (TellMe was recently acquired by [...]

By: Microsoft Has Acquired TellMe

Microsoft Has Acquired TellMe — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:33:16 +0000

[...] Take TellMe off the IPO list for this year - We have multiple sources saying that Microsoft has acquired the company. We’re trying to find the price now. The company has raised More details to follow. See our recent coverage of the company here. [...]

By: jason

jason — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:11:31 +0000

I tried the application and it’s quite slow and does not recognize what i’m saying that often
How this application works
it sends the voice through the network to get interpreted, and receives back the information ?
I have very poor signal so may be that’s why

By: mtalinm

mtalinm — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:55:54 +0000

y’all missed that they have free 411 on their 800-555-TELL service now.

By: rohan

rohan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:16:09 +0000

——————————————————————————–
hi this is rohan & viraj ,we are doing MCA and need some help .
we have taken up the project of voice recognition in J2ME .
what are the requirements of this topic and which books should we refer to

By: Rocky Agrawal

Rocky Agrawal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:39:51 +0000

Tellme suffers from the same problem as most voice regonition systems: they don’t work. In quiet environments, my success rate was well under 50%. (I should note that I don’t have an accent.) In noisy environments - like an airport - it’s pointless. (For my rant on airlines using speech recognition systems when a lot of people are calling from airports, see http://blog.agrawals.org/2006/.....nd-me-now/ )

Many speech recognition systems are based on a constrained list of a dozen or so terms - they guess the probability that the person said “flight status” or “reservations”.

In this case, the software is trying to accommodate large lists of local business names, significantly reducing accuracy. The recognition accuracy was much higher for categories such as “Mexican restaurants” than for specific business names. And if the business you’re trying to look up has an ethnic name, you don’t have a chance.

The application is visually elegant, but the speech recognition technology just isn’t there yet. Even on a 12-key keypad, it’s faster for me to type in the name of a business.

By: chris p

chris p — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:48:31 +0000

sounds cool but not really free. You need to be paying for a data plan! and you have to be on cingular or sprint. i’m on cingular but do not pay for data. and really one more app you to download to your phone, so it takes even longer to look up that number before your phone crashes just like my pc! sorry, no thanks. I’ll keep using 800free411, the best option.

By: Vishal Lamba

Vishal Lamba — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:22:13 +0000

Hi Jesse,

Could you perhaps get in touch with me regarding porting your killier app to a larger base of MIDP 1 and MIDP 2 J2ME and BREW device? We’re a pure play porting services lab in India having done work for Disney, Sony, Warner, Sega amongst others. My email is vishal@theportinglab.com . If this is something you dont handle - i’d appreciate if you forwarded this to the right person in your company. Thanks much. - Vishal

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:29:35 +0000

Useless. Does not run on Nokia phones, you need the US carriers. This sort of thing should be passe by now.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:00:29 +0000

Kula

>> How does this app deal with for e.g. a thick Indian accent.

Tellme has tuning for accents all across the US for 7 years now (over 10 billion utterances). We have built acoustical models & pronunciation dictionaries for many different types of speakers. My boss (the VP of Marketing) has an Indian accent and the app works great for him.

Christopher Sisk

>> “Java Application” … so, as usual … Verizon Wireless customers need not apply.

We have a BREW version in development and we are working with Verizon to get in your hands. As you probably know, Verizon Wireless does not allow downloads from 3rd parties to their phones. Verizon does listen to their customers, so let them know that you want Tellme on your phone!

ben

>> My wife braces herself everytime I try the 1 800 565 TELL service to find directions. I don’t do it often, only in an emergency, and usually ends with me yelling at the phone, it goes like this, “Windsor Rd… Ok, Binder Rd … Go Back WINDSOR RD … OK, Flinder Boad … AAAACHHIUUUU ….

Ben, I know what you mean I hope you find directions in our mobile app easier. Remember, you can always just type in your starting address. You can also save your starting addresses so you won’t have to input them again in the future. Let us know what you think at beta@tellme.com

dan

>> the app sounds cool but how is this much different that Google SMS (which just so happens to offer me a whole bunch more than just 411 info)…anyway just another app on my phone I don’t *really* need.

Dan, you can also txt TELLM (83556) too. WAP based maps are coming soon to that service…

iVersus
>> What a cool application! But with all the issues/concerns mentioned above, 1-800-Free-411 is still king in this arena. I love Free-411. It’s easy to use and free on any carrier and works on any phone.

I hear you can call 1-800-555-TELL and say business search. Try it out and tell us what you think.

By: Felipe

Felipe — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:29:15 +0000

Hello,

We have developed a similar application, but using real people and does NOT require any downloads or installations. We are on beta right now and we would love to hear your feedback:

http://www.zypsy.com

Thank you!

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:19:57 +0000

As far as texting for directions, you can simply SMS Google at GOOGL with, say, mcdonald’s 12345 (where 12345 is your zip) and it’ll respond.

By: Jon F

Jon F — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:25:22 +0000

Does it leverage location from the cell phone or do I have to type in my zip code? This would be a great app if it knew my location (of course my Verizon phone supports BREW not Java so I can’t check it out…when will these wireless carriers get out of their own way)

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:21:31 +0000

Mike,

doesn’t this application pose a large threat to ALL of their customers (411 services, Jingle, etc?) It would arguably steal share from their customers and could cause a major backlash–seems like silly move for a revenue-less product?

Confused.

Jesse

By: Vinay

Vinay — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:03:38 +0000

Does this mean it will not work on the iphone???

By: iVersus

iVersus — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:42:48 +0000

What a cool application! But with all the issues/concerns mentioned above, 1-800-Free-411 is still king in this arena. I love Free-411. It’s easy to use and free on any carrier and works on any phone.

By: PWills

PWills — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:32:40 +0000

Grr, it won’t let me download on SonyEricsson W300i. I think it’s because I use T-Mobile instead of Cingular. Had same problem with GMail Java client originally.

If anyone else has download the SonyEricsson versionI will pay them $20 for it. E-mail tellme.beta@willsllc.com and I will walk you through offloading the JAR from your handset and e-mailing it to me. I want to play with this!

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:58:59 +0000

Ahah… great to finally see that multi-modal (speech in/text-html out) apps are getting adoption. Have been involved in some of this work in 2000 and at that time the back end technology was there but the handsets just didn’t support the capability (capturing the voice and sending it through the data channel).

There’s tons of possibilities with this type of applications and TellMe is in the thick of it. Want to see movie? Instead of telling the computer what theatre you want, and being read back a list of movies, you get it in text which is a WHOLE lot more convenient. Then you scroll, pick one and click on buy!

Also it makes voice apps more user friendly - in the past, calling up to a voice-enabled service - you’re forced to converse with the computer and when the computer just cannot understand you, you’re forced to abandon the call. Now, you have another “mode” to interact with the application (type the city/state etc.).

By: Mike S

Mike S — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:40:14 +0000

The mobile information services space is heating up. Too bad the telco’s can’t agree on any standards and phone applications are never ubiquitously supported. Until that time, I still prefer to get my mobile info over text, using 4INFO (www.4info.net) or Google SMS (sms.google.com).

Having worked on an integration project with TellMe before, I can tell you their voice recognition is never as pretty as their demos.

By: Aaron Myers

Aaron Myers — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:26:01 +0000

It does not work on my BlackBerry Pearl from T-Mobile w/ Unlimited Data