Even if your family gets bored and stops listening to you this Thanksgiving, at least your computer will still have open ears. Just in time for the holidays, Google has officially released voice recognition for Chrome browsers in the form of a Chrome extension.
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Android KitKat was just announced yesterday
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Between the always-listening Moto X
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If you’re not an avid couch potato, then you probably have a hard time finding what to watch on a regular basis. Sure – you can go the safe route and watch popular shows like Game of Thrones and Mad Men, but did you also know there’s a channel out there that shows reruns of Good TImes on a regular basis? DirecTV is going to be making searching for programming on its service a little easier this summer when they release their voice search feature for their smartphone app.
DirecTV’s voice search function is a step above its DVR’s ability to already search for content on its service, expect now you can talk into your smartphone in order to help find what you want to watch instead of spending several minutes typing in through text. The feature will be able to recognize natural language commands instead of specific cue phrases, which has always felt unnatural when using services like Xbox’s Kinect. You’ll also be able to search for on-demand, pay-per-view and upcoming content while also filtering the results based on the actors, title and other variables.
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LG Electronics Japan announced that they will release 7 new series of their “LG Smart TV” – 17 models in all – in chronological sequence starting in late April.
The “LG Smart TV” will feature regular TV broadcasts and various smart content, apps, SNS, etc. These new models are the second “LG Smart TV” series.
LG developed them by putting more importance on operability than previous models. Examples of newly added functions are “Voice …
Google TV is getting voice search. And that’s pretty awesome because some of us get violently angry at scrolling through pages and pages of a guide. More »
Google has revealed just how it harnesses your idle curiosity on every subject imaginable to supercharge its voice search. A database of 230 billion googled words was fed into a language model that can then work out the probability of what you’re going to say next. Mountain View researcher Ciprian Chelba explained that one example of this is if you say “New York,” you’re statistically more likely to say “Pizza” than “Granola,” regardless of any new year’s resolutions. If you’d like to learn more, you can find the algebra-packed original paper down at the source link.
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Google pulls back the curtain on its new voice search, sums it up in this graph originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Companies poach each other’s employees and execs all the time. But, Apple’s latest score, William Stasior, is a pretty substantial one. For the last six years he has served as president and CEO of A9, Amazon’s search and ad subsidiary. Before that he held other search-related roles at Amazon and worked at AltaVista, departing around the time of the Yahoo! acquisition. In his new role at Cupertino, Stasior will be leading the Siri team. The MIT Ph.D will be taking the helm of the voice-powered virtual assistant, which has led some to speculate that Apple could be stepping up search and advertising game. Considering the on-going drama between Mountain View and the purveyors of all-things-i, we wouldn’t be entirely surprised to see the two go head to head on Google’s home turf. But we’d say such a move would be a long term goal, at best.
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Apple snags Amazon’s A9 head to lead Siri team originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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