Tuesday, 19 February 2013

How Google retooled Android with help from your brain

Android voice recognition

When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands. It installed a voice recognition system based on what's called a neural network -- a computerised learning system that behaves much like the human brain.


For many users, says Vincent Vanhoucke, a Google research scientist who helped steer the effort, the results were dramatic. "It kind of came as a surprise that we could do so much better by just changing the model," he says.


By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/19/android-voice-commands

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