Google has been making quick fixes to the speech recognition feature on the Google app. The Google App, which is the official title of what a lot of us describe as Google Now, doesn’t have the tendency to get as much focus as Siri on iOS and Cortana on Windows. Partly this is because Google has avoided the whole ‘character’ side of development and quietly got on with making it better.
Google Gets One Up on Siri and Cortana
Satyajeet Salgar, the product manager for the Google App, said in a blog post that recent developments in machine understanding functionality have allowed Google to bring in advances more quickly and efficiently than ever before. They decided it was time to have their features grow up some more. The Google App is beginning to come to a complete understanding of what people ask. We could now break down a task to understanding the semantics. This way, it can recognize common sense and better respond to it.
Google Tests Out Speech Recognition with Michael Jackson
Google carried out a test with the Speech Recognition, asking it a few questions that would be quite commonplace in regular conversation.
Smooth Sailing with Simpler Questions but It Maxes Out
Then they asked about his cause of death, and it cited the cause of death from Wikipedia. Then it spiraled slightly as questions got more complex. Speech recognition is improving, but there’s a lot of work to do.
