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Google Voice Search for Android and iOS Becomes Better, Faster, Stronger

Tim September 24, 2015 28

Google announced today that users of voice search on both Android and iOS, including voice dictation on Android, will be greeted by a better, more accurate engine. Google states that they have built even better neural network acoustic models using...

Google’s New Location-Aware Search is Rolling Out and Awesome

Kellen June 10, 2015 35

Ever been in front of a restaurant and wondered when it opened, but didn't want to bother with pulling out your phone, searching for its name in an app, then scrolling through information to find out its business ours? Or maybe you were standing in a park,...

You Can Finally “Send a Hangouts Message” With Your Voice in Google Now

Kellen March 16, 2015 93

That title isn't clickbait. I'm not even kidding with this one. You can say "send a Hangouts message" in Google Now, with your voice, and it will actually send a message in Hangouts with your voice. I don't know when this went live, but it's live. It will ask...

Tuesday Poll: How Often do You Use Voice Search?

Tim October 14, 2014 100

Google published a survey this week which it commissioned through Northstar Research. The goal was to find out not only how often users in different age categories used voice search, but how they used the service itself. The study also asked users what they...

Google Retires Personal Voice Recognition From Google Search

Kellen May 14, 2014 23

Back in 2010, Google introduced Personal Voice Recognition through its Search app as a way to learn how you - as a unique individual - speak. The idea was pretty simple - Google had created a Search app that accommodated all sorts of speech models, factoring...

Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime Coming to Amazon Fire TV Voice Search This Summer

Kellen April 17, 2014 11

Shortly after Amazon announced its new Fire TV at the beginning of this month, with accurate voice search as one of its highlighted features, pundits quickly questioned its limited searching power. Fire TV's voice search can only search Amazon content, plus...

This Video Reminds Us That We Hardly Use Google Now and Voice Search to the Extent of Their Abilities

Tim September 9, 2013 110

Google Now and Voice Search have grown a lot over the last couple of years. Google has added in a ton of different searches that can be performed with your voice, many of which are likely not even getting used simply because people probably don't know they...

Google Brings Quick Flight Searches, Purchase Tracking, Personal Photos and More to Google Search

Kellen August 14, 2013 34

Google wants you to fully embrace your voice when it comes to performing searches. In a new service that will begin rolling out of the "next several days," Google is giving you the power to simply ask Google Search for flight info on an upcoming flight, see...