Google iPhone Voice Search Results?
Written on 18th November 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Earlier today Zee announced the availability of the Google Voice Search app and said “I also tried searching “the next web” and it worked perfectly!”. Turns out it isn’t a new app but just an added feature to their existing Google iPhone app. Update it now if you don’t have it yet.
This morning I upgraded my iPhone Google tools too and started testing Voice Search on my way to the office. They say it works best with a North American accent which I clearly don’t have. During testing I found out that it works best if you clearly separate the words and speak slowly. nevertheless, not all results are what you expect them to be:
I searched for “What is the temperature in Singapore” and got back “What is the temperature in Singapore Kenny“. Who is Kenny and where did he come from? I searched for “Patrick de Laive” and got back “60 s“. Right? ”All your base are belong to us” gave me “boy or a base belong to us” and I know I have a difficult name so I tried this one too “Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten“. Google swallowed, choked and threw up this: “when he was a salesperson“. Ah, I need a “Cappuccino in Amsterdam” after all this searching. What do you say? You need “Cupertino Emster Dam“:
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By Patrick de Laive on Nov 18, 2008
60’s !! I know my name is difficult but 60’s is quite far off from Patrick de Laive, I wasn’t even on this planet during the 60’s.
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my app quits after pressing the the allow location button, also on iPhones of colleagues
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By Zee M Kane on Nov 18, 2008
Lol, love the
“Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten“ = “when he was a salesperson“. “Cappuccino in Amsterdam” = “Cupertino Emster Dam“ :)
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By Travis Choma on Nov 18, 2008
don’t worry it’s not just your dutch accent :-). With my North American accent I tried “Cappuccino in Amsterdam” spoken very clearly and annunciated and it gave me “Cappuccino indentured” , also tried “Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten” and it gives me “Morrisville 2007″ . And my own name “Travis Choma” returns “Travis Children” .
Speech Recognition Fail!
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I feel so much better!
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By erwin blom on Nov 18, 2008
Conclusion: your English s*cks! ;-)
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I feel so much worse now!
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