Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world

Google Voice Actions was the first step towards our Star Tre k dreams of lassoing the world with naught but vocal cords, and today Google’s taken a second hop towards that inevitable future by letting Android devices record our every utterance. Yes, if you’ve got a handset running Froyo or better, you can download an update for Google Voice Search right now, which will let your phone dynamically personalize its speech-to-text engine to better recognize your voice most every time you use it. Of course, by so doing you’re giving Google permission to record your sentences — anonymously, of course — to use in future products, but whether that’s a problem or just a happy coincidence depends on whether you take Google at its word . We hit the “yes” button, in case you’re curious. Find it on Android Market, or just use the handy-dandy QR code below. Continue reading Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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