| Title:
| Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
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| Description:
| Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
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| Author:
| JOHN MARKOFF
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| Orig. Date:
| November 14, 2008
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| Source:
| NY Times
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:08:56 -0800
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