Google creates voice recognition for iPhone!

[paranoidandroid]

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/google-iphone-app-gets-voice-recognition

"Both Yahoo, Microsoft and even Google -- with its 1-800-GOOG411 -- already offer voice recognition for mobile search queries, but the New York Times is fascinated with a new voice recognition feature for Google's iPhone app, which will be made available today. Just listen to Times writer John Markoff gush:

Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. The ability to recognize just about any phrase from any person has long been the supreme goal of artificial intelligence researchers looking for ways to make man-machine interactions more natural. Systems that can do this have recently started making their way into commercial products.

So anyway, now you don't have to use your thumbs when you're looking for late night pizza tonight."

Why is google doing this?

[HeezDedJim]

you have to realize that Google isn't going to stop helping/assisting with other companies with their products and research. Before the G1...the iPhone had google maps as a basic app package.

Apple lets Winblows users use Cracktime and iTunes on their competition. Same with you can use MS office on an iMac-aroni. It would be bad marketing skills to completely cut off your competition.

But look at it this way....we'll probably get the same app here sooner than later on the G1 phone since they worked on it for the iPhoney. I just hope it doesn't support ebonics (tha-ree, fi, fo...dat's mah numba, fam!).

[bizarro_stormy]

hahah. winblows, imac-aroni...LOL

[Fare]

you have to realize that Google isn't going to stop helping/assisting with other companies with their products and research. Before the G1...the iPhone had google maps as a basic app package.

Apple lets Winblows users use Cracktime and iTunes on their competition. Same with you can use MS office on an iMac-aroni. It would be bad marketing skills to completely cut off your competition.

But look at it this way....we'll probably get the same app here sooner than later on the G1 phone since they worked on it for the iPhoney. I just hope it doesn't support ebonics (tha-ree, fi, fo...dat's mah numba, fam!).

Amazing...both insightfull and amusing

[Stanovoy]

Simple:

1. iPhone is more important from a business standpoint. Android is negligible for now.
2. Releasing for all other platforms first would help in circumventing antitrust issues.
3. "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."
4. Google has a much bigger iPhone team and budget.

[MobileMan]

I wonder if they'll make a voice recognition software for texting. Then it would be safe to text while driving.

[dherna]

Probably started working on the iPhone app a long time ago...

[DesignDawg]

You guys have to know by now I'm a BIG supporter of this phone. But this crap is making me kinda sad...

If the iphone IS bigger and more important to GOOGLE than Android... buying this phone will have been a mistake. This is the first time I've conceded this possibility. But I feel it 100%. Google can't just keep pushing out innovations for the iphone and leave us with nothing but a couple of mysterious builds that just fix bugs. I know the phone just came out, but they've been working on Android for a LONG time. :(

[Skatturbrain]

You guys have to know by now I'm a BIG supporter of this phone. But this crap is making me kinda sad...

If the iphone IS bigger and more important to GOOGLE than Android... buying this phone will have been a mistake. This is the first time I've conceded this possibility. But I feel it 100%. Google can't just keep pushing out innovations for the iphone and leave us with nothing but a couple of mysterious builds that just fix bugs. I know the phone just came out, but they've been working on Android for a LONG time. :(
I agree totally. If we do not get an important update or a good free Google app in the next 6 months I will lose faith in the Android platform.

[coyote711]

you have to realize that Google isn't going to stop helping/assisting with other companies with their products and research. Before the G1...the iPhone had google maps as a basic app package.

Apple lets Winblows users use Cracktime and iTunes on their competition. Same with you can use MS office on an iMac-aroni. It would be bad marketing skills to completely cut off your competition.

But look at it this way....we'll probably get the same app here sooner than later on the G1 phone since they worked on it for the iPhoney. I just hope it doesn't support ebonics (tha-ree, fi, fo...dat's mah numba, fam!).

Haha! Nice nicknames... *clears throat* Ok now into more serious matters. You have a point on the company's apps being ported to other platforms BUT what do they all share in common? They all get released to their own platform first if not at the same time as other platforms. So what I am trying to say is that Google should be backing up their own OS. This is like Microsoft releasing Microsoft Office to Mac users and Windows users have to wait for their own OS's owner to release it for them... This isn't the first time either... Google earth ring a bell?

[al74]

You guys have to know by now I'm a BIG supporter of this phone. But this crap is making me kinda sad...

If the iphone IS bigger and more important to GOOGLE than Android... buying this phone will have been a mistake. This is the first time I've conceded this possibility. But I feel it 100%. Google can't just keep pushing out innovations for the iphone and leave us with nothing but a couple of mysterious builds that just fix bugs. I know the phone just came out, but they've been working on Android for a LONG time. :(

I somewhat agree.

Although I understand the need for Google to support a product like the iPhone, Android is a competeing platform that has been created and supoorted by Google, and I bought my phone under the assumption that Google will support the platform better than other platforms. I don't mind developing apps and solutions for the iphone market but it seems strange that many Google developments, such as this and the Google Earth come first to the iphone rather than the G1.

[Lukster]

Google is universal - Not a, 'opurtunity turner downer' company, as we should all know!

Google had plans in the beginning for fully functional VR in an interview some time way back on its first phone to come. In fact, It was its most hopefull special feature along with flv streaming. It comes as no surprise that the iphone, knowing that this platform would be a competitor, had a better shot at executing such a task being they are more of a established platform. .
They have had plenty of time, but as for google's g1. I think they tried to do too much in too little time.

sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software This doesnt means its iphones.. It's googles for iphone, so if you cant make it work on yourown yet (got to be a reason) ... why not make yourself some mulah and get it where you can.;)

[al74]

Google is universal - Not a, 'opurtunity turner downer' company, as we should all know!

Google had plans in the beginning for fully functional VR in an interview some time way back on its first phone to come. In fact, It was its most hopefull special feature along with flv streaming. It comes as no surprise that the iphone, knowing that this platform would be a competitor, had a better shot at executing such a task being they are more of a established platform. .
They have had plenty of time, but as for google's g1. I think they tried to do too much in too little time.
This doesnt means its iphones.. It's googles for iphone, so if you cant make it work on yourown yet (got to be a reason) ... why not make yourself some mulah and get it where you can.;)

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

Would you imagine Apple comming out with a new mobile version of iTunes to the G1 or Blackberry before the iPhone? Next thing we know iPhone will have a Chrome browser before the G1.

[Fare]

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

I would agree with you, if android was as old as the platforms in which these other apps are being made for.

Who knows how long this has been in development for the iPhone/etc? Should the google iPhone developers stop/delay a product simply because it hasn't been released on the native platform?

well, going to backpedal here and say that would have been my decision...but i'm not google

[Gigaflop]

I agree, this is starting to depress me. I mean, I love the G1 and all the promise behind it, but when the company that wrote the OS behind it, supports other OSes before their own, that makes you wonder if they have any faith in their own product.

At the very least stuff should be released simultaneously. How or why it comes out for competitors first, and not at all on their own platform is disconcerting.

First Google Earth, now Voice Recognition. And I still can't even save my MMS picts, or get my calendar to sync right.

[kizer]

Are you guys nuts? How big is google? For years its been all about the search engine wars. Now its about advertising Revenue.

Google spreading its wings a little is what big business does. The Andriod Os I'm pretty sure isn't its primary concern, but I bet there is a HUGE team out there that does. ;)

[Lukster]

I disagree. The Android was on the table for more than 3 years now so they should have planned to port the technology to this platform. I think it is legitimate to expect Google's mobile apps to appear on their own platform before, or at least at the same time with competing platforms.

Would you imagine Apple comming out with a new mobile version of iTunes to the G1 or Blackberry before the iPhone? Next thing we know iPhone will have a Chrome browser before the G1.

I dont think google is going to forget who they are. BTW what is google? and remembering what kind of company google is, it wil make it much clearer to understand how ok it is for them to provide services to others as they've been doing. It wil come to the gphones, but def not overnight and it def will not be by landlocking you markets for services in trade to serve yourself first and mak profit of others after. Think in terms the income will inject more money into android/google, so cheers. Drink to the iphone saps.;)

[Gigaflop]

Honestly, I don't care what google is or why they do what they do. What I want to know is, will google support their OS as much as others, or did I just buy into a 2 year contract for a dead end OS that will receive less support than other options I had at the time?

This isn't about "oh, but think about it from Google's perspective." This is me. The consumer. The one wondering why is it that the other phone I considered upgrading to is getting all the updates that I had expected to come out for this phone.

If google is sending the message that I should have gotten an iphone, then why the heck did I get the G1?

[djdlite512]

The old saying says if a dog can't bark for his own backyard, what good is he?

Wow, Google...you cut the Android platform deep with this one.

[Tunster]

I agree totally. If we do not get an important update or a good free Google app in the next 6 months I will lose faith in the Android platform.
Going back to this post... why talk rubbish? Why does everyone want to compare the the G1 to the iPhone?

I don't want my phone to become a fashion accessory like the iPhone thank-you very much. As much I respect the iPhone in many ways, Android has to take a different approach rathering than pleasing people who only care about how a phone looks/and what it does apart from texting/phoning.

Sheeeesh....

[kizer]

Guys this is Google not Microsoft. I don't see them selling out to Iphone, but probably expanding their market.

[Jorsher]

Calm down guys :)

I think one of the main purposes of Android, since it isn't generating money for Google, is to get the Google name into the public. I use Google every day a few times a day. Is it the best search engine? I'm not sure. But I'm used to using it, and always have, so always will. They're going more mainstream with their services, and every person they reach will help them get to their goal.

I don't think they will leave us out and not get this feature to us. Fact is, iPhone has a much larger userbase right now, and would be a better candidate to get their services on since our G1 IS Google. Whenever we do get it, I wouldn't be surprised to see it integrated into the OS in ways iPhone could only dream of...

I could be wrong!

[Jorsher]

Honestly, I don't care what google is or why they do what they do. What I want to know is, will google support their OS as much as others, or did I just buy into a 2 year contract for a dead end OS that will receive less support than other options I had at the time?

This isn't about "oh, but think about it from Google's perspective." This is me. The consumer. The one wondering why is it that the other phone I considered upgrading to is getting all the updates that I had expected to come out for this phone.

If google is sending the message that I should have gotten an iphone, then why the heck did I get the G1?

If they didn't care, they wouldn't have updates out for flaws so quickly :) I could be wrong, but I don't think iPhone gets updated as promptly when bugs/exploits are found.

As I said in my previous post, I won't be surprised if Google finds a better way to give us this feature than a standalone product. How great would it be if it was directly integrated into the OS like every other Google feature is? If it takes them longer to get it out, I won't complain, and you can be sure our version will be better than what's possible with the iPhone.

[NetCom]

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/google-iphone-app-gets-voice-recognition

"Both Yahoo, Microsoft and even Google -- with its 1-800-GOOG411 -- already offer voice recognition for mobile search queries, but the New York Times is fascinated with a new voice recognition feature for Google's iPhone app, which will be made available today. Just listen to Times writer John Markoff gush:

Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. The ability to recognize just about any phrase from any person has long been the supreme goal of artificial intelligence researchers looking for ways to make man-machine interactions more natural. Systems that can do this have recently started making their way into commercial products.

So anyway, now you don't have to use your thumbs when you're looking for late night pizza tonight."

Why is google doing this?

If they can experiment with other manufacturer devices to make even better stuff for their own OSs/Phones - why not? :)