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Google Voice Search May be Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-like-idle-speculation dept.

vitaly.friedman writes "The master of text-based search could be looking to lend a voice to Internet users everywhere, or so it appears based on Google's latest patent. Patent #7,027,987, issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office, covers a 'Voice interface for a search engine.'"

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  1. Voice Matching by UnseenLlama · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Great! Now the government will be able to not only track my search results...but also attach my voice to it! Not that I'm scared or anything...

  2. European Quaero. by magli · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I was almost sure that I had read something about a EC funded "google-killer" search engine being developed in europe, which planned to do this. Sure enough:

    Attack of the Eurogoogle (Need subscription).
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    From the article:
    researchers at the University of Karlsruhe are developing Quaero's voice-recognition and translation technology, with funding from the European Commission. [...] In addition, speaker-identification software will allow users (via computer microphones) to search the internet for audio clips recorded in their own voices, or those of other speakers.