Excerpt: “The billions of calls made every year to directory-assistance services are a healthy precedent for voice-based search services,” says Dan Miller, a senior analyst at Opus Research, a San Francisco-based consultancy that tracks the interactive-services sector. Free mobile search,… Read More ›

Excerpt: A report by Opus Research forecasts that total spending by carriers, device makers, subscribers, and advertisers on mobile search will grow from $4 billion in 2006 to $7.5 billion in 2010. Customers of the combined company will include handset… Read More ›

Excerpt: 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… Read More ›

Excerpt: Web-based voice services are still a relatively new field. The industry has so far been populated by small specialists, but is ripe for consolidation, says Dan Miller, an analyst at Opus Research Inc. of San Francisco. Companies spent $1.12… Read More ›

Excerpt: The overall market for voice-recognition technology topped $1 billion for the first time in 2006, a 100 percent increase in just two years. Within that broad market, there are numerous subsectors that are likewise surging: The market for server-based… Read More ›