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isoHunt Launches “Talk to Torrent” Feature

BitTorrent search engine isoHunt implemented a nifty feature a few days ago.

You can now search for torrents without having to touch a keyboard. Just talk into your microphone and isoHunt’s cutting edge technology does the rest.

“We beat google to adding speech input on their search box,” isoHunt founder Gary Fung told TorrentFreak.

The speech input feature only works in the Chrome browser.

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  • http://twitter.com/alexbasasa Alex Daniels

    I thought about the idea of voice search years ago and patented it. I think I’ll sue them.

    God, I love being so creative.

  • Nils

    Cool feature bro.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Mcintier/1146574107 Sean Mcintier

    “We beat google to adding speech input on their search box,” isoHunt founder Gary Fung told TorrentFreak.

    The speech input feature only works in the Chrome browser.

    But Google beat you, by it only working in Chrome :P
     

    • Ninja

      The irony. isoHunt beats Google by using Google’s products in a way Google hadn’t thought of.

      Gotta love it!

  • LOL

    >“We beat google to adding speech input on their search box,”

    >The speech input feature only works in the Chrome browser.you surely have beaten google.
     

  • Anonymous

    nifty! too bad i don’t use chrome much =P

  • Anon

     Pile of pump! 

  • Anon

     Pile of pump! 

  • wieweet

     ”isoHunt’s cutting edge technology” is part of google chrome, the oanly thing they did is add a x-webkit-speech tag to there input.And google translate has this future already: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/04/everybodys-talking-and-translating-with.html

  • wieweet

     ”isoHunt’s cutting edge technology” is part of google chrome, the oanly thing they did is add a x-webkit-speech tag to there input.And google translate has this future already: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/04/everybodys-talking-and-translating-with.html

  • Yasmin

    Trolls

  • townie2

    guess they “pirated” it off you Alex : )  too bad it only works with Chrome, sounds pretty cool.

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