Google registers voice-actived search patent

[thilipan]

Silicon reports, A newly published patent provides further evidence that Google is developing a voice-activated search engine.

Patent number 7027987, of which Google is the assignee, concerns “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.”

Google is going in the right way. Voice search makes our life easier and also very useful for physically handicapped persons.

Google Voice Search Research Paper Abstract

Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search engine. We present experiments with various statistical language models, concluding that a unigram model with collocations provides the best combination of broad coverage, predictive power, and real-time performance. We also report accuracy results of the prototype system.

[Canadian Mark]

Just an opinion, but I beleive it's poor "netiquette" to copy and paste somebody else's article, and not give credit where it's due...

In fact, wouldn't that be plagiarism?