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."
Re:Good voice transcription? (Score:5, Informative)
Something for iPhone users? I could care less.
Really? I honestly couldn't care less, but it's nice to know someone out there is taking an interest.
I like the idea... (Score:3, Informative)
I actually like this.
As long as the speech-to-text is reasonably accurate, it will do what I want.
I hate driving and having to type something into google to figure out and address or phone number.
If i could say it, even if it was only close to accurate, it would be safer and save me some headache.
Now I just need an iPhone. LOL.
Re:Good voice transcription? (Score:3, Informative)
Please excuse the typos, I was *very* frustrated when I was typing this!