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Google has been granted Voice Search Patent
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25 Apr 2006Tired of typing around, searching all day from groceries to recipies, blogs to technology news, music and videos, and everything under the roof.
Well here is some good news to soothe your fingers Google has been granted the Voice Search Patent. Patent number 7,027,987 which can be read here will allow Google to create a voice interface for their search engine.
Now imagine that you can do a search on the web just by telling the search engine what you want to search for without needing search recognizition software.
Picture this, you are cooking this wonderful delicacy for someone and you forgot the recipe and need to search it over, but with your hands all dirty you can't type or read, now what do you do, just shout into your computer and there comes the result you wanted.
Well just imaginging the things that I will be able to use in the near future makes me go tizzy, already the web2 is hotting up and now this.
The co-inventors credited in the patent include Franz; Alexander Mark (Palo Alto, CA); Henzinger; Monika H. (Menlo Park, CA); Brin; Sergey (Palo Alto, CA); Milch; Brian Christopher (Mountain View, CA).
Here is the abstract that says what the patent is all about.
"A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user."
So what are you waiting for head to the store and get that microphone now, you may require it pretty soon.
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5 Responses to Google has been granted Voice Search Patent
Simon Pitt
April 26th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Ohhh looks very cool, but every one speaks different e.g tone of voice, pitch and accent’s. I have used IBM Via voice and after about 8hours of setting it up it could understand most of what i was saying.
I think this is a very good idea but will be quite hard to implement, purley because every one sounds differnt, so the word reconnision data base would have to be very large and quite forgiving.
gr rhrhr
April 26th, 2006 at 10:27 am
sounds awesome, let the revolution in search engines begin!
bruzed
April 26th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
The other day I was thinking about a voice search engine type thingie and was wondering how soon Google’s gonna do and sure enough here it is!!!!!
AWESOME!
NighT
April 27th, 2006 at 12:43 am
I can imagine it now, I am fumbling around in the dark before I leave for work. I trip over my kids toys and shout “Fucking Kids!” and WHAM! kiddie porn on my google search. makes you think
JohnnyDKS
April 28th, 2006 at 5:09 am
Regardless of whether or not this will be helpful to searching, you know people will use it, and seeing as how its Google ALOT of people will use it, which will only help voice recognition technology in the future.