In a recent New York Times article, John Markoff discussed improved technology that will allow you to do a Google search on your on your cell phone just by speaking into it. He says in the article that you should speak into your phone to search just like you would type the entry into Google. I can’t believe that this technology is available to us today. It’s amazing to see the improvements that have been made to it as well because now it is 95 percent accurate.
While I think that the article is interesting, Markoff should have focused more on individuals using as testing the product instead of focusing on his opinions and use of the phone. He went into the fact that he has been following research on the phone and the history of speech recognition technology.
These pieces of information felt me asking questions like why should I care? I felt that the middle of the piece was boring, dry and just rambled about research and history that really were not necessary to include. I wish he would have focused more on how it works, what the perks of using it are, and how much the feature costs. That would have made the article a much more interesting read.
Find the full article at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/google-iphone-machine/
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I found it really interesting that you can now speak into the phone and Google will search for whatever you said. The thing that I did not like was the two paragraphs at the beginning.
"So don’t bother with polite formalisms like “What is the best pizza restaurant in San Francisco?” Simply say “best pizza restaurant San Francisco.”
After all, you’re talking to a dumb machine — or perhaps several, distributed across multiple states."
First of all, I would have to say that these aren't "dumb machines." After all, they are able to hear what we say and search for it in Google. That's pretty amazing in my book.
Second of all, I feel like he could have worded it better than "don't bother with polite formalism." He could have just said, "You can now just say what you're looking for like you would type it into Google, instead of making complete sentences."
The article was a bit boring and dull in the middle and I didn't feel like reading past the middle of the article.
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