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Apple disapproves of Iphone voice app
EVEN THOUGH its Iphone customers might be interested in installing a speech recognition system developed by VST (Voice Signal Technology), Apple won't endorse it, the INQ has learnt.
Back in August, Voice Signal announced that its engineers have ported several of its existing applications onto the Apple Iphone as a proof of concept.
The initial apps include Vsearch a local search facility driven by speech recognition and Vtunes – a voice enabled music player.
Voice Signal has placed demos of both apps on Youtube as well as on its own web site.
Despite the fact that both videos have drawn respectable viewing Youtube figures, the INQ was told that Apple has been less than keen about co-operating with the software company.
This has a distinct whiff of that old American disease – the 'not-invented-here' syndrome.
VST is now part of Nuance Communications which claims to be the fastest growing software company with revenues going from $388 million to an estimated $600 million in a year.
The company's new general manager, Steve Miller revealed that the company expects the mobile sector to show the biggest level of growth – around 40 per cent.
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www.voicesignal.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zne4rwCCmAc Vtunes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ayrCCw5xWug
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For a review on iphone speech recognition see:

http://speechanalytics.blogspot.com/2008/09/iphone-speech-recongiotion-status.html
The "inquirers" articles (sp intentional) would have a little more credibility if they could learn to spell.
It's i-Phone, not I-phone. Like iPod. Go on - try it.
Or we can keep on calling it " the inqUIReR. Sounds like you just talked to someone about Apple instead of doing some on line research.....
Who's the author of this piece??? I don't think "learnt" is even a word, LOL. Also: "Despite the fact that both videos have drawn respectable viewing Youtube figures," isn't exactly top notch journalism... I figures people really like George W., cause they re-elected him, LOL... Oh, and there this: "VST is now part of Nuance Communications which claims to be the fastest growing software company with revenues going from $388 million to an estimated $600 million in a year." Where are these revenues going??? Ahhh, you mean the are gRowing.... "The company's new general manager, Steve Miller revealed that the company expects the mobile sector to show the biggest level of growth – around 40 per cent." What does this last statement have to do with the premise of the article??? If I wanted to know the projected market growth of VST then I'd go to yahoo finance and look for it under NUAN; the article is about Apple's disapproval of VST's VR application... duhhh...
Proper nouns start with capital letters. All else is marketing.
> This has a distinct whiff of that old
> American disease – the 'not-invented-
> here' syndrome.

No, this is the whiff of telecoms operator dictating what one can load on one's device. In the end, the iPhone is a cell phone and AT&T doesn't want to accidentally allow a third-party VOIP application which would bypass the phone-plan's minutes limit.
Google's 800 line does local search, quite useful: 800-GOOG-411

http://www.google.com/goog411/
Of course, it's not-invented here, has nothing to do with a non US company but Apple already has voice technology on the Mac - why would you turn over a key feature of a future add-on to someone else?