It works pretty well for calculations. Tried phrases like "natural log of 77", "80 miles in kilometers", "17 times pi" and got the correct answer. Cool!
Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
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#42Non-native English speaker: Haskell web frameworks - √. Tigers in India - √. Friedrich Nietzsche - what is a meter. Programming best practices - √. Contemporary philosophy - √. I bet you look good on the dance floor - √. Random beatboxing - the gap at the top of the pita pit.
Native English speaker – I had the same problems with non-Anglo names. It seems to discount the possibility that one is searching for a foreign name (in my case, an Italian name), and instead tries to interpret the name as if it were an English phrase.
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#43When I see this - I really appreciate how good 'Watson' is with speech to text!
Watson had no speech to text, the questions were fed to it as text.
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#44Interestingly enough, I notice it on http://www.wunderground.com/ homepage using Chrome. Not exactly sure how they're using it?
All you need to do is add the x-webkit-speech attribute to the desired input element:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/2010/10/google-a...
I, for one, can't wait till Android and iOS implement this.
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#45Does anybody know a keyboard shortcut to activate the voice search without having to click on the microphone?
Yeah, seriously. Also, from the Google web site:
"Searching without typing
Use it in the kitchen, in the garage or anytime your hands might be full."
Oh, really? I want to see you move your mouse pointer into position and click the microphone...anytime your hands might be full. Silly bints.
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#46This is a big step – millions of people becoming more comfortable with searching for information just by speaking to their computer. Historical moment.
This technology has been around a few years. If I'm not mistakken, wasn't voice search originally implemented on the Google iPhone application? Now with the proliferation of microphones on computers, it makes sense for Google to implement this feature on the Google webpage.
Yes, technology was around for years but it was just made more accessible to a much larger demographic.