Google has create an app for the iPhone that will give the French telephone advanced vox recognition , reports John Markoff from theNY Times . The app can reply localisation related interrogative sentence ( Finding the nearest Starbucks ) , give driving directions , respond to generic interrogation , and even search local data from the speech book . It works by recording a soundbite , upload it to Google ’s host , which will grind the data and repay an answer “ within seconds on a fast wireless meshwork ” . Saul compared the function to that offered on Yahoo ’s , and found Google ’s to be more exact , but still return junk results sometimes . AT&Tand Microsoft also have handset voice recognition beyond simple dialing that many other phones extend . The app will be free and might be available to download as presently as Friday . [ NYT ]
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