Google creates voice recognition for iPhone!

[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/...ce-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?