Google Upgrading Voice Search for iPhone Apps

Published on: 9th Aug 2012

­Google has announced updates for the voice base search app it currently offers for iPhone users who might prefer an alternative to Apple's own Siri service.

Google said that it is improving its service by linking it to is own "knowledge graph", a database of cultural concepts that help it improve the relevancy of search results. The knowledge graph contains a database of more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them.

The change should help the voice search app understand the context of enquiries rather than just responding to the key phases spoken.

Voice Search can also now better interpret questions and sometimes speak the answers back as full sentences. This has been available on Android for a few weeks and Google said that it will soon be available on iPhone or iPad (iOS version 4.2+).

In a blog post, Amit Singhal, SVP Google Search wrote: "These are baby steps, but important ones on our way to building the search engine of the future -- one that is much more intelligent and useful than it was just a few years ago."

 

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