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To date, mobile voice-enabled search has been restricted almost entirely to basic directory assistance — a business worth about $4.1 billion a year, according to Dan Miller , senior analyst at Opus Research in San Francisco. , Miller projects that by 2010 the market will expand beyond 411 services and grow to $7.2 billion, as people begin to ask their phones to do everything from finding the nearest gas station to locating friends who are nearby.

“These are applications people are very familiar with,” Miller said. They just haven’t had the opportunity to use their voices to access them by asking their phone.

From the article, “The phone will tell all at the sound of your voice”, by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe, April 26, 2007

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