Google launches Speech to text search on iPhone
Now this is pretty cool and should have iPhoners downloading in the millions.
“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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Wow - now that’s a pretty neat use of speech to text - will be interesting to see how it works. Speech to text and Text to speech have long been the Holy Grail of computing applications and we’re heading the right way, what with Twitterfone, Dial2do and now this from Google.
…Forgot to blatantly tout http://www.podize.com on my previous comment. It’s coming soon, but will let you Listen to your blogs…