On June 14th, Google held an event in San Francisco where they talked about bringing speech recognition and computer vision technology to the desktop.
The promo video below is an announcement showing “voice search” using Google Chrome on your desktop or laptop computer.
On July 14th, Google taught their English Voice Search system using 230 billion words from real queries so that they can recognize the phrases people are using more accurately. As the quality of speech recognition has increased, so has usage: voice search traffic has increased six fold in the last year.
Another technology Google is bringing to chrome is the ability to search by dragging an image into your search field. Watch the video below to learn more!
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