How to Search the Internet with your Voice

How to Search the Internet with your Voice Mike Agerbo: Well, we know how to use our computers and laptops to search for items up on the internet whether that would be a restaurant or a different type of business. We've got Olivier Vincent from Canpages, so thanks for coming on the show. Olivier Vincent: Thank you Mike. Mike Agerbo: Well, let's talk about voice search. That makes it even easier. Olivier Vincent: Yeah, voice search is pretty cool. We all know where we can search it a lot on the online plat forms but we believe that Canpages that mobile search is going to be more and more used. And probably in three or four years from now, there would be more local searches conducted on a mobile device than they will necessarily be on the computer. So we've put together three technologies here to have access to the whole national databases and maps and all other videos in each the content we have but still a number of people out there are scared about their keyboard and it's kind of long to put together. So we work to include a speed button, so now you can say what you're looking for and you will see the result by coming on the screen. So I can say things like French Restaurant in the Yaletown, Vancouver and I just send a little snip in of voice over the internet, it's being recognized by the servers and here is where were going back. So I've got my French Restaurant in Yaletown, Vancouver and there are two of them and I can see them on the map and dial them directly. So that’s actually a very powerful functionality and from the test we've made something people have been for, for a long, long time. You can also use a GPS location of your—in that case an iPhone and just say Starbucks and you should have be given in a location the system knows. And look at that, it’s saying “Searching Starbucks nearby”. So it’s asking you if I'm okay to give the location which I am obviously— Mike Agerbo: Because you need your Starbucks? Olivier Vincent: Because I need my Star Bucks and it's given eight of them. The closest one is about 20 meters from here and Wall St. and I can see my Starbucks on the map here. So you can see the speed of it, even if you're very quick with the keyboard the voice is very fast, so I can make you know—last try bicycle shops in the beaches of Toronto. Just to be sure that you can search all around the country and I like to say the full information. Mike Agerbo: And this works in most major city centers? Olivier Vincent: It's a whole database and in the whole country. So here we go, we've now got your search for the bicycle shops in the beaches of Toronto, and you can go in click on one of them and dial them directly. I'm going to go and so I don’t need— Mike Agerbo: Don’t need a bike today. Olivier Vincent: No. Mike Agerbo: Well that’s very cool and that’s an application you can download for the iPhone? Olivier Vincent: Definitely. Mike Agerbo: Very cool. Olivier Vincent: It’s a free application on the iPhone. Mike Agerbo: Great, well thanks for joining us on the show. Olivier Vincent: Thank you Mike. Mike Agerbo: Well if you want to do voice searching on your iPhone, check out the iTune store and look for the Canpages voice app.