Google Search by Voice

Sharon Gaudin reports that Google is improving voice search . Gaudin paraphased Google Fellow Amit Singhai as saying "that future searches will be more like conversations with your computer or device, which also will be able to give you information before you even ask for it."

Gaudin notes that voice recognition inaccuracies have slowed adoption. She quotes consultant Patrick Moorhead as saying "Very few people rely on any smartphone voice products. They only will rely on them when the accuracy gets to 99%. Imagine if your keyboard only was accurate 95% of the time, meaning every five keys out of 100 were inaccurate. So this is a nice improvement, but until the complete user experience gets to 99% it won't really make a difference in adoption."

-DD