A new speech-based search engine is hoping to find a gap in the market, reports Ananova:
A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results.
Called Speegle, it has the look and feel of a normal search engine, with the added feature of being able to read out the results.
"It is still a bit robotic and can make a few mistakes but we are never going to have completely natural sounding voices and it is not bad," said Speegle founder Gordon Renton.
An interesting idea, certainly in usability terms, but I wonder about a couple of things: voice technology makes text sound robotic rather than rumbustious at the moment (more Stephen Hawking than Stephen Fry); and shouldn't reader software be part of the browser, rather than the search engine?
