Google Is Taking Spoken Questions 94
The New York Times is reporting that Google has added a voice interface to their iPhone search software. Expected to make its debut as early as Friday, users will be able to speak into their phone and ask any question they could type into Google's search engine. The audio will be digitized and results will be returned via the normal search interface. "Google is by no means the only company working toward more advanced speech recognition capabilities. So-called voice response technology is now routinely used in telephone answering systems and in other consumer services and products. These systems, however, often have trouble with the complexities of free-form language and usually offer only a limited range of responses to queries."
The response... (Score:5, Funny)
The response to popular Slashdotter question, "where can I get laid?":
404 - Page Not Found
Let's just hope (Score:5, Funny)
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
Huh?!
However... (Score:4, Funny)
... it seems to translate every question into "My hovercraft is full of eels! [youtube.com]"
My very first question... (Score:3, Funny)
be careful telling your work phone off (Score:5, Funny)
Be kind of awkward sitting in your manager's office explaining that you weren't surfing pr0n, just telling your phone to fuck off.
Re:So i guess (Score:3, Funny)
Where you at dog?! Google Phone: Mountain View, California... dog.
Cool, now I can speak my porn requests (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The response... (Score:4, Funny)
Tell it you are feeling lucky and it just might send you here [goatse.cx] .
You must be new around here.
Cheers!