Android App: Google Voice Search Gets Personal with Google Voice Search Personalized for Android 2.2

When Google Voice Search was first launched, they wanted to make it work out of the box, without an initial setup process.? So Google built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents, or variations in pitch, pace, and other factors.

Google didn't want it to require training.? Now, however, there is personalized recognition to train Google Search to learn your personal voice patterns and pitch.

If you opt into personalized recognition, it will begin to associate the recordings of your words with your Google account.? Google then automatically uses these words to build a speech model specifically for you.? This speech model enables Google to deliver greater recognition accuracy.? Although subtle, accuracy improvements begin fairly quickly and will build over time.

The first time you use Voice Search, you'll be presented with a dialog to turn on personalized recognition.

The personalized recognition functionality is currently available for English in the United States.? Google plans to support other countries and languages in the near future.? To enable it, you must have Android 2.2 or higher, and you must download the latest version of the Voice Search app from Android Market.? The new app also includes some improvements to name recognition and speed, especially over 3G and EDGE connections.

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