Google tests voice search

An interesting news story has appeared on the Web: apparently, Google is now testing a new voice search feature for its search service. At the same time, there is no official information from the corporation itself. For the first time a new feature was noticed by one of the Mashable readers, on Monday afternoon. The voice search function determines the system microphone settings, and allows you to use the “Speak now” widget to convert the spoken phrase into text.



In principle, owners of Android OS phones should be familiar with Google Voice Search, where you can control some of the phone’s functions with voice. For example, the phrase "Directions to Empire State Building New York" will help to get to this building in New York. The corporation is now actively working to improve this product, and even taught the program to recognize Chinese (the Russian mobile application Google has more or less learned to understand since the end of 2010).

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Apparently, now there is a phase of final testing of the product for desktops and laptops, and not just for mobile devices. Unfortunately, access to the function is still closed for most users, voice search appears in a random order, and there are not so many lucky people who were able to test Google.com.



Such functionality, if everything works fine, and the support of more than one English and other languages ​​will be presented, will be very useful. On the other hand, a huge number of companies are fighting to create fairly reliable solutions in the field of voice recognition, but so far there are no 100% working programs for a PC or mobile device that would allow to “type” text with a voice.



Below you can find a few screenshots that made the very reader Mashable, testing a new feature.















Via mashable