{"id":5886,"date":"2009-10-06T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:26:35","slug":"koe-tan-a-free-iphone-voice-search-app-for-public-transit-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/koe-tan-a-free-iphone-voice-search-app-for-public-transit-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Koe-tan&#8221;, A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Logo of Traffic Gate\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/trafficgate_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"33\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5891\" title=\"Novauris' Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/novauris_logo.gif\" alt=\"Novauris' Logo\" width=\"178\" height=\"32\" \/><br \/>\nTokyo-based Internet ad agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficgate.net\/\">Traffic Gate[J]<\/a> and U.K.- and Silicon Valley-based speech recognition technology developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novauris.com\/\">Novauris Technology<\/a> jointly released an iPhone\/iPod touch app allowing you to find the best route on Tokyo&#8217;s public transit using your voice, which is named &#8220;Koe-Tan&#8221; and available for free at AppStore.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are holding with bags and an umbrella so that you can&#8217;t use the iPhone&#8217;s on-screen keyboard, now you can easily find the best route(s) to your destination by just saying something like &#8220;Shinjuku kara Roppongi made&#8221;.\u00a0 (&#8220;kara&#8221; and &#8220;made&#8221; are Japanese particles standing for from\/to.)<br \/>\nNovauris Technology was founded in 2002 by the scientists who previously developed the well-known voice search software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/naturallyspeaking\/\">Dragon Search<\/a>.\u00a0 The company&#8217;s voice search technology supports American English, British English, Korean and Japanese, and it&#8217;s also used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\">Verizon Wireless<\/a>&#8216; mobile search application &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/products.vzw.com\/index.aspx?id=fnd_toolsapps_detail&amp;appId=2033791\">Get It Now Search<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nTraffic Gate&#8217;s ad module for iPhone\/iPod touch is embedded in the new app, and the two companies have agreed to share the revenues earned from the banner ads which appeared on the search results.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5893\" title=\"Koetan Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/koetan_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Koetan Screenshot\" width=\"254\" height=\"380\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=327881054&amp;amp;mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"Available at AppStore\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/available_at_appstore.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=327881054&amp;mt=8\" width=\"152\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Proofread by: Sean O&#8217;Hagan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-based Internet ad agency Traffic Gate[J] and U.K.- and Silicon Valley-based speech recognition technology developer Novauris Technology jointly released an iPhone\/iPod touch app allowing you to find the best route on Tokyo&#8217;s public transit using your voice, which is named &#8220;Koe-Tan&#8221; and available for free at AppStore.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are holding with bags and an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/koe-tan-a-free-iphone-voice-search-app-for-public-transit-in-tokyo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Koe-tan&#8221;, A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[1732,1744],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-software","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}