Google files patent for voice search; a blow to Promptu, V-Enable?

Matt Marshall | April 12th, 2006
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(from V-Enable’s homepage demo)

Google filed a patent for voice-activated search five years ago, and it was finally awarded yesterday.

Wonder what this means for start-ups like Promptu, of Menlo Park, or V-Enable, of San Diego, which also have developed voice-based search technology, for mobile phones?

Less than a year ago, Promptu’s parent, AgileTV, raised $22 million in venture capital, though its business model extends beyond voice search. More vulnerable is V-Enable, which focuses entirely on voice search, and several weeks ago announced it had raised $6 million in venture capital.

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2 Comments

  1. April 13th, 2006
    7:30 am

    Greg Linden said:

    Googlers also wrote a technical paper on Google Voice Search with many interesting details:

    http://labs.google.com/papers/webbyvoice.html

    Well worth reading.

    If you are interested, I have some brief thoughts on that paper posted here:

    http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/02/google-voice-search.html

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