Voice typing is closer and closer to becoming truly ubiquitous on various Google products, including search and the Gboard Android app.
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Voice typing is closer and closer to becoming truly ubiquitous on various Google products, including search and the Gboard Android app.
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This is the place where you and only you can listen to every single request you made. Well, supposedly. And if supposedly is what you’re worried about, read on to find out how to protect yourself.Each utterance of “OK Google,” every tap of that red mic icon, your phone records a clip of you saying whatever you’re saying (savory or not). It then sends it off to Google’s servers to process your command ...
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Google’s Voice Search services have garnered a lot of fame over the last couple of years, not just because it can do voice searches in a more accurate way than competitors, but because the service predicts a ton of things before you ask it anything through Google Now. Google’s main business is really to be a search engine, so accurate results are necessary for users to rely on its technology when in need. Today the company has announced new changes that should make its service even better.Google has just updated the technology behind its voice search services with the idea of ...
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How often do you use your digital assistant every day? Some may think that Siri, Cortana and Google Now are just gimmicks, but according ...
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Being able to speak aloud to your smartphone can be a fantastic way to interact with it: it’s fast, it can be surprisingly accurate, and honestly it’s just a bit of fun – feeling like you’re living in the future. Of course all this is hinged on it being able to understand you in the first place, and supporting a language becomes a whole lot more complicated when we consider all the widely varying dialects people use. Google is working on making its Voice Search more ...
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Of all the rumored improvements Windows Phone 8.1 will bring, perhaps none is as important as Cortana. Not that a fully-featured voice assistant is a make-or-break qualification for a platform’s success; rather, Cortana symbolizes a more important shift in Microsoft’s priorities. With its leaked “Notebook” functionality, the new Windows Phone companion may bring the ability to catalog your personal information for later reference – an important component for any modern “digital assistant.” But we’ve seen that kind of information mining put to ...
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Talking to a phone – or any piece of technology, for that matter – is gauche, awkward, and often alienating. There is very little that feels normal about asking your smartphone a question or telling your car stereo to call someone. However, the last two years have been a sort of resurgence for voice input for mobile platforms. Apple acquired Siri and integrated it into the core iOS experience; Google introduced Google Now and offline dictation software; Samsung introduced S Voice with TouchWiz Nature UX; and LG introduced what was virtually a direct copy of S Voice. It was only a ...
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