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Google Is Taking Spoken Questions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the a-sentence-is-worth-a-thousand-search-results dept.

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."

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  1. The response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The response to popular Slashdotter question, "where can I get laid?":

    404 - Page Not Found

    1. Re:The response... by vigmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

      Tell it you are feeling lucky and it just might send you here .

      You must be new around here.

      Cheers!

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  2. Let's just hope by rehtonAesoohC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's hope Google doesn't try to publicly demonstrate this like Microsoft did for Vista Speech Recognition!

    "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"

    Huh?!

  3. However... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... it seems to translate every question into "My hovercraft is full of eels!"

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  4. My very first question... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there any possible way I could be more lazy?

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  5. be careful telling your work phone off by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, 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.

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  6. Re:So i guess by JayAitch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where you at dog?! Google Phone: Mountain View, California... dog.

  7. Cool, now I can speak my porn requests by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    so I will be able to keep my hands free...for other....things....

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