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If you are too busy typing into your mobile browser to search for something, Google has easen up your work. Now you can just go to your Google search page in your mobile browser and search based on your voice.

Google has launched a free voice-based mobile Internet search facility in India that has been built entirely by the Internet search giant's India engineering team. Currently available only to the estimated 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users, the company hopes to extend this facility to other handsets by the end of the year.

The voice-based mobile search throws up results similar to a PC-based search query. A user can log on to the Internet on his/her mobile, open the Google search page, and ask for a particular location, restaurant, taxi stand or florist while driving a vehicle or riding in a bus. Simply speaking the word "movies" into the phone, for instance, would throw up the top results.

Google uses a combination of an automated voice recognition engine and operators to provide this facility. To make the service faster and better, it is also experimenting with voice recognition technology, which will ensure 24-hour support. The company plans to extend the technology to other cities once it is confident of the quality of its speech recognition technology "in any region of the country"

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