Googlified

The master of text-based search is looking to lend a lend a voice to Internet users everywhere, or so it appears based on Google’s latest patent. Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a “Voice interface for a search engine,” which is described as:

“A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.”

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While Googling Google Voice Search, I found this page, called Google Voice Search Demo, and at the bottom, it’s copyright is ©2002 Google.

“I knew I have seen this page before. :)“