By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The web has come a long way. While voice technology isn’t new, it has only recently taken off on mobile phones.
I wrote about this voice phenomenon for Forbes about Bubble Motion. The startup launched a voice version of Twitter called Bubbly. And the launch of Bubbly has spread by word of mouth in India.
But the real buzz is using your voice to search. According to CNN, Google’s Nexis One can break down language barriers. And you can use your voice to search for information on Bing and Google.

Computers are becoming better listeners. With the right equations and statistics, the voice recognition programs are 80 to 90 percent accurate. After some Google math, the computer can guess what you are going to say next and it can figure out 10,000 sounds.

CNN reports:

“It’s now possible to pick up your phone and press a single button and say, ‘I want the Yelp.com review of the Capital Grille in Burlington, Massachusetts. Period,’ ” said Vlad Sejnoha, chief speech scientist at Nuance Communications, a major producer of voice-to-text software.

Cell phone apps Dragon, ShoutOut, and Vlingo convert voice-to-text. I downloaded ShoutOUT and taught it my voice by repeating several sentences. Then I sent my friend a text by voice and ShoutOUT translated my message into text. However, when he got the text, it came as a file number and it wasn’t completely obvious that it was from me until he opened the text message.