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Google Voice Search (GVS) is a program which allows you to search your smartphone, or the Internet, by simply speaking into your device. Google has already rolled out Google speech search multi-lingual support for its smart speakers, known by the name of Google Home. It further plans to spread this functionality to a wide range of devices, like headphones, fridges, and car speakers. What makes Google voice assistant a global technology is the variety of languages it supports; 35 to be precise, other than English. You can easily change and check the number of languages on your android device by simply saying “Hey Google”, followed by “Language Settings”. How It Came to Be? Announced in summer of 2011, GVS was not as sophisticated as it is today during its early development and testing days in Google Labs. During its early years, the program would ask its users for “Keywords”, before any search was to be initiated.
The process was rather mundane, and the program had nothing exciting to attract users. But things changed soon after Google released Google voice search online for iOS On October 30, 2012, to compete with Apple’s voice assistant; Siri. This new app was received fairly by users and tech critics, and since then this Internet giant has never looked back. What Makes Google Voice Search so Edgy? Google voice search, on the most basic level, is a speech recognition program. All the amazing things that it does, like finding your nearby America Cell Phone Number List businesses, schools, and calling someone in your phone book, are secondary. The success of Google voice recognition program depends on basically three things: Its accuracy when converting speech to text Its contextual search feature Its multilingual support 1. Accuracy of GVS What’s accuracy in a voice recognition technology? A speech-to-text accuracy is all about how clearly your voice assistant understands you and gives back results which are relevant to your voice search. Back in 2013, GVS’s voice accuracy was only 75%, which is considerably lower when speaking in context to voice search programs.
But come 2017, and Google’s machine learning backed voice search optimization was at an all-time high in terms of its accuracy, which was 95%. 2. Contextual Search Now, what is contextual Search? Contextual search means serving users with information which is less generic and is more customized and useful from the point-of-view of a particular user when they use Google voice assistant. Let’s understand this with an example. Let us say that you searched for “Who is Barack Obama?”. Then Google speech search will provide you, probably, with a Wikipedia page of Barak Obama, reciting back the top lines that would read “Barack Hussein Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President……”. Now, just after getting the search result, if you simply ask “Tell me his age”, then it would provide you with the age of Obama. Notice that for the second time you didn’t mention the name of any person, but Google still gave back the age of Obama, taking your last query in the context of your previous one. This is known as contextual searching.
The process was rather mundane, and the program had nothing exciting to attract users. But things changed soon after Google released Google voice search online for iOS On October 30, 2012, to compete with Apple’s voice assistant; Siri. This new app was received fairly by users and tech critics, and since then this Internet giant has never looked back. What Makes Google Voice Search so Edgy? Google voice search, on the most basic level, is a speech recognition program. All the amazing things that it does, like finding your nearby America Cell Phone Number List businesses, schools, and calling someone in your phone book, are secondary. The success of Google voice recognition program depends on basically three things: Its accuracy when converting speech to text Its contextual search feature Its multilingual support 1. Accuracy of GVS What’s accuracy in a voice recognition technology? A speech-to-text accuracy is all about how clearly your voice assistant understands you and gives back results which are relevant to your voice search. Back in 2013, GVS’s voice accuracy was only 75%, which is considerably lower when speaking in context to voice search programs.
But come 2017, and Google’s machine learning backed voice search optimization was at an all-time high in terms of its accuracy, which was 95%. 2. Contextual Search Now, what is contextual Search? Contextual search means serving users with information which is less generic and is more customized and useful from the point-of-view of a particular user when they use Google voice assistant. Let’s understand this with an example. Let us say that you searched for “Who is Barack Obama?”. Then Google speech search will provide you, probably, with a Wikipedia page of Barak Obama, reciting back the top lines that would read “Barack Hussein Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President……”. Now, just after getting the search result, if you simply ask “Tell me his age”, then it would provide you with the age of Obama. Notice that for the second time you didn’t mention the name of any person, but Google still gave back the age of Obama, taking your last query in the context of your previous one. This is known as contextual searching.