Google Adds Speech To Newly Stable Chrome 11, Pays Big Bounty

CWmike writes "Google patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Wednesday as it boosted the stable build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac and Linux. The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars. While Google listed more than 3,700 changes in Chrome 11, the only one it highlighted was the speech input feature. The combination of Chrome and Google Translate isn't flawless. In several quick tests by Computerworld, the browser and service transcribed most phrases accurately, but in one instance heard 'Good morning, sister ship' when the line was actually 'Good morning, Mr. Smith.'"

Comments

Lisp?

[SIR_Taco]

Seems that maybe they should have programmed it in Lisp?

Thanks, I'm here all week!

Error is excusable

[Flyerman]

Sister Ship is a much cooler band name than Mr. Smith.

Nothing new or innovative really

[ya really]

Opera has had a similar feature for years now

They're ignoring the largest bug

[Posting=!Working]

Did they fix the bug that makes the bookmarks suck? You know, the one that makes you choose between the incredibly clunky bookmarks sidebar or the waste of space that is a bookmarks toolbar.

No?

I'll wait for Chrome 12 and hope they've fixed it by then.

Bookmarks are probably the best example of a drop down menu usage - a menu you occasionally want, and once you make a selection, it goes away.

I've seen so many people try Chrome and delete it because of it's stubborn idiocy in handling one of the most commonly used functions in a web browser.

Still a shit browser

[Snaller]

"Are you sure you wanna leave this page?"

Yes! Why the fuck can't I disable that crap?

Shitty browser. And you still can't zoom the font size, only the whole damn page as an image.