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Ask and Ye Shall Google It
2009-06-29
"Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to make computers that 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 can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, such as: "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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