Say your search keywords... Okay, searching... your results are ready... *** Say your search keywords... Okay, searching... your results are ready...
This is what you hear after dialing (650)318-0165 to perform a Google search via voice! Yes, the dream has come true: Voice Search.
Google labs is the place google learns from you. They have combined their sophisticated search capabilities with basic technologies to become one of the leaders in the market in the very near future. They don't do magic, they just plug and play.
I had written about the great combination of image processing technology and Google's advanced search engine which led to the birth of Google Catalogs (which is unfortunately still in Beta). The system basically receives your search keywords, looks them up into the scanned catalogs and returns the pages with your phrase highlighted in them.
Now, google works on the advanced voice search which enables any computer illiterate performs a quick search on google and gets the desired results. This system basically receives your keywords through the telephone system, converts them to text through a sophisticated speech recognition technology and sends the result to a web page. A perfect and smart combination of sound processing and their search engine. They say: we do the text processing, give us image/voice processing, we'll glue them together and do the magic.
Their next step towards making the search much easier for the businessmen would be the integration with mobile platforms and sending the search results to the cell phones. Here is the trick which makes them perfect: get your search results when you're camping, gone to a picnic or driving your car.
Google sets is also one of the experimental projects held in Google. It may reveal some of the secrets of google's future projects, it works fine enough to find any related items to your few items and make a set. The system should obviously work for the English phrases, but it also amazingly worked when I entered persian numbers (yek, do, seh) into the system... Google rocks again!
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