After what seemed like an eternity, the Google speech recognition search update for iPhone is finally available. (Hint: Just click on the “Get App” button and you’ll get it.)
So how does it stack up to the video? It works as advertised…beautifully! I decided to search for the obvious, Chinese food, and it promptly brought up the many Chinese restaurants in my neighborhood. I then went back into the app and saw that it remembered my search history, and I saw “Opus comic strip” which had been missing from my Sunday comics. I said “Opus comic strip” and it quickly brought up several links, one in particular was the answer to my question: the comic has been moved to the web. I tried others, “Nickelodeon’s Big Green Help” and “Auto Bailout” – all worked seamlessly.
This is a rarity in the speech/voice recognition software world. Usually promises are made and magic is expected but, we all get a nice bag of nothin’ because of one malfunction or another. I’m interested in what all of you think of it, when you’ve tried it out.