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Breaking: Google Adding Free Voice Search to the iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the nearest Starbucks), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and even search local data from the address book. ...
Google Adding Advanced Voice Search to the iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the nearest Starbucks), give driving directions, respond to generic questions, and even search local data from the address book. ...
Google iPhone App Already Lists Voice Function, but It’s Not There
iPhone Atlas —
As reported by the New York Times, Google’s iPhone application will soon get voice functionality, allowing users to speak a search term, which is then transmitted to Google’s servers, recognized (theoretically), then entered as a search term. Geez… is the iPhone’s virtual keyboard that bad?
According to the report:
“The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
“The search results, ...
Google voice search app for iPhone arriving shortly
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:00 AM EST Google as early as today is expected to introduce a free application for the iPhone that lets you search for information, directions, or virtually anything else by speaking into the handset, eliminating need for the keyboard entirely. "The service can be used to get restaurant recommendations and driving directions, look up contacts in the iPhones address book or just settle arguments in bars," wrote the New York Times' John Markoff, who profiled Google's broad speech-recognition efforts while breaking word of the new offering. For instance, you ...
Google to bring Skynet to iPhone in voice recognition update
Infinite Loop —
... employed by companies like Google ever had enough time off to watch the Terminator trilogy? Companies may have the best of intentions when building artificial intelligence systems that assist with vocal queries from, say, an iPhone, but the rest of us know how this is going to end. Regardless of our impending doom, Google is set to announce an update to its search application that brings these very features to an iPhone near you. Snarky, half-dead film references aside, the New York Times brings news that Google is preparing to bring "sophisticated voice recognition ...
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
iSmashPhone —
... Good read from NY Times about voice recognition in Google App. Let's hope voice recognition from Google is better offering compare to others. "Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone." [via NY Times]
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Google offers voice search on Apple iPhone
MacDailyNews —
... researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who has done pioneering work in voice recognition, said Google’s advantage in this field was the ability to store and analyze vast amounts of data. 'Whatever they introduce now, it will greatly increase in accuracy in three or six months,' he said," Markoff reports. "As with other Google products the service is freely available to consumers, and the company plans to eventually make it available for phones other than the iPhone." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Kevin P." for the heads up.] MacDailyNews Note: As of ...
Mobile searches to soon have a voice, thanks to Google
Macworld —
... , a mobile version of its popular 3-D mapping and search tool. But that’s been it for the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant. That’s about to change, according to a report in the New York Times which says that the release of an app allowing voice-activated searches is imminent. As in “sometime Friday imminent.” Google’s latest offering will enable users to speak their search queries, with the app spitting out results in a flash. Or as Times report John Markoff puts it: Users of the free application… can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like ...
Google is listening, and iPhone users are talking
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone According to the New York Times and the Google iPhone page, the big G is about to add voice recognition capabilities to its iPhone search app (iTunes link), with the new version showing up on the App Store any minute now. You'll be able to ask questions (the kind Google can answer, of course; someone else will have to tell you if those pants make you look fat) and get speedy search results returned from the web or your own address book.
The voice recordings from the application will be sent to ...
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