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By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:07:39 +0000

hmm, so the two good things about GOOG-411 are this fetcho sound thing and the fact that its free, eh?

Great article, Chris. Articles like this help put to the rest every bit of doubt that GigaOm readers may have about you guys just being groupies on Apple and Google, and nothing more.

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve tried both and Microsoft’s free 411 service (1-800-CALL-411) is much better, it’s free and it doesn’t have any funny sounds. I just works.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:09:44 +0000

i always thought that sound was static or something awful like the voice screwing up. i never thought it was supposed to be a feature. they should change it to something nice.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:25:17 +0000

Funny that they thought about and decided against imitating a human. Telstra’s phone system in Australia uses voice recognition, imitates a human (complete with typing noises) and is an insult to the intelligence of every caller.

By: Stephen Carboni

Stephen Carboni — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:58:32 +0000

Please reup the sound to like megaupload or something.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:40:15 +0000

For all the people posting how much time they wasted reading this article, do not forget the time you spent crafting your witty comments.

Goog-411 works fine for me but has a heavy American accent when pronouncing Spanish restaurants.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:10:15 +0000

TellMe (Microsoft) service is much better than Google’s. AND it will continue to be better for years to come, unless Microsoft screws it up. When MSFT shelled out $800M, they bought a “business” that was generating a few hundred million of revenue per year with large enterprise accounts. I’m sure that many people will find it as a surprise but this is one area that Microsoft is beating Google….. I know it’s hard to believe, eh.
If GOOG wanted to become the big daddy in the voice space they would need to acquire Nuance.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:18:13 +0000

How much were you paid to call this sound “cool?” It sounds like a child imitating a 1960’s sci-fi movie computer, poorly. If that is what they wanted, they should have searched for a decent sound from a library.

By: varkey

varkey — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:04:11 +0000

I didnt like the music. Its crap.
:(

By: Waltermh

Waltermh — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:34:32 +0000

wow, you have alot of trolls here chris, i feel bad for you.

i never have a reason to use any 411 service but i found the article interesting because i understand the importance of this guys work. and its google, they do so much good its hard not to be interested in all the things that make them unique.

people don't care to think about what research goes into the devices that they interact with to try making the experience as pleasant as possible, and since you cant make everybody happy the few that end up unsatisfied feel some need to hate and be loud about it as if they represent everybody or are the center of the world.

either way, keep up the interesting articles. i am sure google will keep improving the service with time.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:41:30 +0000

Jai,

re: http://goog411.googlegroups.com/web/1-800-goog-411.mp3?gda=Y0TV50MAAAB7GA88RxiKfMmJbBD-l3LOftcXfMw_zBUSWbpHeV8HeGG1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDTr3bKJgB1KeNxedXzzC5fjaRO12GarSki7FMoIuUXfNA

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