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Google's Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available
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doesn't work very good with an australian accent ha ha
I can't get it to bring back a correct search result even speaking in my best Queens English.
Am sure it's great if you are North American but I hope they do some work on recognising the rest of the English speaking world
Softy southern English accents are a no-no as well.
"bus times in Brighton" is interpreted as "Busta Rhymes on abortion"
so fun using this. now google has a place on my main screen.
one thing i wish it did: when I say "where's the nearest starbucks?" it would be EXCELLENT if it would just bounce to google maps and just show me... this would knock current nav systems out of the park!!!
if google could accomplish this + turn by turn... wow.
one thing i wish it did: when I say "where's the nearest starbucks?" it would be EXCELLENT if it would just bounce to google maps and just show me... this would knock current nav systems out of the park!!!
if google could accomplish this + turn by turn... wow.
Utter junk
The voice search it utterly useless and does not work at all if you speak in a clear clean English accent. We all have to speak like North Americans to get any sort of joy from it apparently. How very useful. What a shame an application that uses the English language for searching doesn't actually recognise anything said when spoken in actual English.
The voice search it utterly useless and does not work at all if you speak in a clear clean English accent. We all have to speak like North Americans to get any sort of joy from it apparently. How very useful. What a shame an application that uses the English language for searching doesn't actually recognise anything said when spoken in actual English.
reminds me of living in canada and trying to top up a rogers pre paid cell phone balance... oh the joys of trying to put on a fake canadian accent so that the voice recognition software would understand me ha ha ha my friends and I got very good at saying yeeeeerrrrsss
Softy southern English accents are a no-no as well.
"bus times in Brighton" is interpreted as "Busta Rhymes on abortion"
Will be trying my non-regional dialect (though southern) accent later tonight. Will be annoyed if this only works for ameerikans.
This is what I was afraid of. Bastardisation. Or Bastardization
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I have to admit, this is pretty neat!
I have a little keyboard lag with the app, but that's ok.
I'll be trying it put more later on in the day.
Good job Google for a nice app!
I have to admit, this is pretty neat!
I have a little keyboard lag with the app, but that's ok.
I'll be trying it put more later on in the day.
Good job Google for a nice app!
That sampling rate would be more than enough for speech
I spoke normally (welsh accent), did roughly 10 searches and all but 1 were spot-on.
To give it credit, it failed on "F you" and came up with "book review" which is fuuny, but otherwise I tried some single character searches e.g. WWE and it worked flawlessly.
Recommended to show off to friends
I can get it to work pretty well. Shame that I have to put on an American accent to do so. I hope they release a UK English Version soon.
it doesnt like me. it hasnt even figured out a single search. keeps telling me "didn't get that."
arg. seems like it should be pretty cool tho..
Same with me - with all the posts I was beginning to think I was the only one.
It works a full 0% of the time - all it says is "Didn't get that." after everything, I don't think it's getting the voice input at all. Have tried 20-30 searches, talked at it from all different angles, tried both holding it to my ear and pressing the button...nothing, nada, zip. Tried rebooting the phone as well just in case the install was flaky.
Any thoughts? I recall with some previous voice-input apps (Shazam, voice recorder), they seem to not work as well, I chalked it up to them being buggy.
Do I possibly have a flaky phone (works fine for phone calls), or is there some mystery setting or test?
Thanks...!
lol. I said 'Nearest Starbucks' and it searched for 'Jewish Temples'.
'Fred' searched for 'Crips' (!)
'Linux' searched for 'Minix' - Andrew Tanenbaum would love that one..
OTOH it did get supercalifragilisticexpialidochus!
Interesting toy but typing is faster and more likely to get results that you actually want... I don't know how to do an american accent (saying 'do not misunderestinate me'* and 'nukiller' didn't seem to work..)
* Or, in google speak, 'juno misunderestimate mi'
'Fred' searched for 'Crips' (!)
'Linux' searched for 'Minix' - Andrew Tanenbaum would love that one..
OTOH it did get supercalifragilisticexpialidochus!
Interesting toy but typing is faster and more likely to get results that you actually want... I don't know how to do an american accent (saying 'do not misunderestinate me'* and 'nukiller' didn't seem to work..)
* Or, in google speak, 'juno misunderestimate mi'
I can't get it to bring back a correct search result even speaking in my best Queens English.
Am sure it's great if you are North American but I hope they do some work on recognising the rest of the English speaking world
Try this for 5 minutes:
"The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."
Then retry a search.
How strange. I just tried it on my 2G iPhone and it worked 100% correctly
I tried:
How old is Julia Roberts
apple dot com
picture of tom jones
where is osama bin laden
Where does Barack Obama live
receipe cheesecake
map iran
how rich is bill gates
bbc dot co dot uk
Perhaps you need a more generic American accent. I am English.
All it does is prove that voice recognition is years away from being practical. This kind of stuff has been done before many times, with similar results.
Whilst it's fun to get completely random results by talking to your phone to call it 'game changing' is silly.
Now if it worked on the contact list (and could be limited to that) at least it would be useful - but other phones have had that functionality for years (hell even my car has it)... still not 'game changing'.
Ugh. The voice recognition is horrible. It hasn't yet gotten anything right even if I disable my southern accent.
Sometimes you have to outsmart the software. From your previous post, try just "Starbucks." It will use your location. And "Linux software." Creating more context improves the recognition.
Softy southern English accents are a no-no as well.
"bus times in Brighton" is interpreted as "Busta Rhymes on abortion"
Ha!
So what was the outcome?
I'm guessing "pro choice"?