Darrell Proctor is a publishing industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience writing about business, technology and sports. He spent more than a decade at the St. Petersburg Times and later the Rocky Mountain News, where he authored the Mile High Tech blog and was noted for his reviews of consumer electronics and technology. Questions for Darrell? Drop him a line at techexaminer@gmail.com.

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Speak to Google on your iPhone, and Google will answer your question

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November 14, 2:06 PM

by Darrell Proctor, Business Examiner

Yes, you can talk to the hand. If your hand is holding an iPhone with Google's search application.

Reports are the application could be available at any moment (and it may already be available depending on when you're reading this).

You've always been able to type in a search request on the iPhone keyboard. Now you'll be able to "speak" your question directly into the phone and quickly (in theory) see the answer (and you'll still be able to type in questions if you wish).

This could make anyone a winner at trivia.

How does it work? The iPhone records the spoken phrase, then sends it off to Google's servers to work on the response. For instance, you could ask "Where's the nearest gas station?" and quickly (again, in theory) be directed there as the answer appears on the iPhone's screen (you might even be linked to a map).

Yahoo currently has a similar application (oneSearch with Voice) available on some BlackBerries. A Microsoft app (Tellme) also works with some BlackBerries, though questions are limited to finding businesses.

And ChaCha has a voice question-answer service for mobile phones, but it includes a human element - real people look up the answers, then return the result with a text message.

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