Google’s new speech recognition iphone is something really interesting and has a great impact in future. This phone can recognize your voice and can query for you anything, anywhere. You do not need to type anything like blackberry. In stead of typing, you just make voice that you interested about. Right a way your iphone answers you by researching billions of data from Google search engine. This application is like phone operator that help you when you call many different offices but much more efficient with the knowledge of Google database. Top of that, you do not need to worry about typing when you are traveling or shopping unknown places with a bunch of luckages or packages. You just need to ask your iphone like where is the nearest train station or hotel or specific grocery to buy. How cool!
The funny or tragedy of this phone is understanding your accent. If it does not get your right approach because of any kind of noise or accent or similar sound, it would answer you wrong. But you assume that it answers right and by following its direction you might have problems as well. For example, you asked for nearest prison but it gets you like nearest verizon: you understand the differences. So it is important that you understand as a user how to use and verify your enquiries based on importance. Reader Andy Marshall express the situation, “If you do not have a US accent the results are poor.” However, according to author Markoff all search giant Google, Microsoft and Yahoo believe speech recognition is a new bright and important opening era for mobile computing. Understandable, that is why only Microsoft spent $1 billion to acquire Tellme Network.
On the other hand, when you search for something on web, there you can also find interesting link or add that could bring you their sites, even that site may do some bisuness with you instead of Google or Yahoo. There fore, the may loose valuable customers. But if you use Google iphone, Google search engine gives only specific information that secures their business with you.
Senior director for consumer service, Dariusz Paczuski said. “You want to be able to interact with your phone just like you would with your mom or friends, voice is a great interface and it can simplify interactions more than anything.” Darius Paczuski’s idea is great but still thinking, may be Google iphone will kill our social values and interactions with people like Google earth mapping. Some day we might not need anybody except iphone to exchange our emotions.
To read the topic click http://bits.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/google-iphone-machine/
