Mobile Upgrade Broadens Horizons

October 18, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Mobile Upgrade Broadens Horizons

Are you familiar with T-Mobile’s Genius button? When pushed, it allows you to issue basic voice commands from calling or texting a contact to searching the web or Google Maps. Observers might say it’s like Siri, but most users would disagree.

That opinion may soon change, since T-Mobile has given Genius an upgrade, providing a deeper level of natural-language understanding, and integrating the service with a broader array of content sources beyond Maps and Google Search.

Gigaom brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “T-Mobile’s Genius voice-command button just got a lot smarter.” Another good example of semantic technology and of course, taxonomies, since they are required for a comprehensive database to reference. Access Innovations is known as a leader in database production, standards development, and creating and applying taxonomies.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.