Sub-second Mobile Speech Search

V-Enable has released mobile speech search applications veCLIENT 3.0 and veGATEWAY 6.0 which it claims breaks the “sub-second” latency barrier on 3G networks.
The interesting aspect of this beyond the launch news is that it supports the idea of a move away from handset-based applications to ones where the hard work is done on a server and the results sent to a handset over the network.

This marks a milestone in the performance race as a distributed client-server solution now rivals the more costly and resource hungry embedded mobile device implementations. Like prior versions, the veCLIENT 3.0 has an extremely small footprint and is fully compatible with mobile platforms such as JAVA, BREW, SYMBIAN and other popular mobile operating systems. Unlike embedded solutions, veCLIENT is not a memory, processor or resource hungry application and presents no mobile device constraints.

I’m not sure why a search function would be kept on a handset rather than communicating with a server anyway, but if the system does give responses in less than a second that’s a huge lift in performance.
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