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MSN Trails Rival Portals In Voice Recognition

For years, people at Microsoft, up to and including chairman Bill Gates, have trumpeted the importance of voice recognition for computers. So, given the company´s consumer...

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Gregor Klevže 21 Aug 2014 719 views

For years, people at Microsoft, up to and including chairman Bill Gates, have trumpeted the importance of voice recognition for computers. <BR> <BR>So, given the company&acute;s consumer thrust with MSN and the billions it plows into R&D each year, it seems Microsoft Corp. (stock: MSFT) would have beaten America Online and Yahoo Inc. (stock: YHOO) to the punch, voice-enabling its Internet portal. But it did not. <BR> <BR>

With the AOL 6 debut last October, AOL—now officially known post-merger as AOL Time Warner Inc. (stock: AOL)—showed off AOL By Phone, which lets subscribers check their e-mail, news, and other information by calling an 800 number and voicing commands into the phone. In addition, AOL Speaks, which comes with the AOL 6 client software, lets users dictate words into their system, said AOL spokeswoman Jane Lennon, though she did not say how many of AOL´s 27 million customers take advantage of these services. Yahoo beat AOL by two weeks, announcing Yahoo By Phone on Oct. 10.

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