Thursday, April 13, 2006

Google Patents Voice-Activated Searching

Author: Matt DeAngelis

Now this is cool.

According to Silicon.com, Google has just filed a patent on a voice interface for search engines. Through the use of a language model, phonetic dictionary and acoustic models, a server generates an n-best hypothesis list or word graph.

Though the patent application was in 2001, it was just published this week. Google Voice, which has been up for some time (it is currently down), allows the user to call into Google and tell them your search over the phone. It will then display the results in a new window.

This would be a terrific cell-phone searcher.

About the Author: Matt DeAngelis runs http://www.affiliateblog.com/, that is his latest venture, and it was started as a resource to help site owners and bloggers to get more revenues from their sites.

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