Google's Alfred Spector on the hot seat
Google's VP of research talks about where search is headed, what difference it will make and what makes his company tick.
What kinds of things are coming out of Google research? Google Search by Voice is an example. Wouldn't it be nice to tell a handheld device what you want to know? It's an interesting problem in that one needs to understand spoken voice, correlate that with the most likely search queries, and then show the search result -- doing all this with an intuitive, speedy user interface. This work comes out of our basic research efforts in speech recognition. The Google Mobile App with voice search has been on the iPhone for a few months, and we just released Google Search by Voice on Android [Google's open-source software for mobile devices].
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