[defmute]

Weird, right on their freaking blog it says "Contact search. Quickly find contacts in your address book."

Google Mobile - Google Mobile App

Would be nice if they gave an example.

oh and by the way if you want to search the contacts you have to guess our secret word first, (its blatherskites)

[khaoticsquirrel]

neat. i likey =)

[vedavis]

Originally Posted by gfr04c

it is finally available on the app store

And it works!

Is this the "killer app" that takes the cell phone to the next level?

Since the voice processing is done at Google, is anyone concerned about the privacy issue, since your query and your voice is sent to Google?

[cranie]

I might be missing something but it's not very good at finding things by auto location. I actually have to tell it my city name in the search or it gives me U.S. wide answers even though the phone knows the zip by autolocate.

[liverman666]

It is shockingly bad,a VERY poor attempt.

Tried over 100 different SIMPLE commands and it didn`t get 1 right!

Better luck next time Google...................

[se23]

yeah this suckssss! I'm from London and didn't get 1 search right, I tried with a u.s accent and it's ok, but not great. It says it works best with north American accent! Boo google

[Happy Noodle Boy]

Originally Posted by liverman666

It is shockingly bad,a VERY poor attempt.

Tried over 100 different SIMPLE commands and it didn`t get 1 right!

Better luck next time Google...................

That's funny because I tried over 101 different COMPLEX commands and it got them all right.

Better luck next time liverman666.....................

[Eurisko]

Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

That's funny because I tried over 101 different COMPLEX commands and it got them all right.

Better luck next time liverman666.....................

Agreed.

Some people think they have no accent whatsoever... here's a tip, if humans have trouble understanding you, a computer never will.

Originally Posted by se23

yeah this suckssss! I'm from London and didn't get 1 search right, I tried with a u.s accent and it's ok, but not great. It says it works best with north American accent! Boo google

And again. If you read the big friendly notice, it says it's designed for someone speaking a clear North American accent. Was yours as good as Hugh Laurie's?

[Poseidon79]

This app works amazingly well for me... i'm excited!

[bschucher]

Dozens of commands and not a single one missed.

[Eurisko]

Anyone know how to get the iPhone to stop asking if you want to Allow or Don't Allow your location to be determine, and just do it already?

[FramedTrash]

it doesn't like the Australian accent very much
it does work but not as well as it does in the video
still pretty neat
would be neat if you could browse the web using voice prompts
like forward back refresh enter and so on

[jaredb03]

This works awesome. I have only had one problem, it didn't understand my name(I tried to Google my self). Now they just need to port this to work on typing emails and text messaging(I know it defeats the purpose of text messages but i hate typing).

Also those complaining about it not working try speaking American English, not the fish and chips English.

[FramedTrash]

Originally Posted by jaredb03

Also those complaining about it not working try speaking American English, not the fish and chips English.

haha thats funny American English
that's a great solution tho instead of Google fixing this problem
they can just get the whole English speaking world to put on American accents

[Happy Noodle Boy]

People really seem to not grasp just how HARD it is to get good voice recognition software for the masses. A home solution is different since they "learn" your accent and voice patterns and they all have training modes where it will learn your voice.

This is on a whole different level. It's obvious the voice-recognition software can only do so much and has to be tuned for the majority of people.

To get better with this, you need to take an opposite approach. Since the voice recognition won't learn to understand you, YOU need to change for it to understand. What I did yesterday was pick a random quick phrase and basically kept repeating it, changing my tone and speed every time, until I could consistently get the correct result back. After that, I just made every question in the same tone/voice and I rarely got wrong results.