Good news! Today Google launches the service voice search in Spanish. A service in which I believe very much and I have all the trust in the world.
Talking into a phone is much faster than typing on it, and it’s the natural way to use it. And Google also believes so, since it is currently committed to this technology, and we already have it available for English, Mandarin Chinese (like flans), Japanese, French, German, Italian and Spanish. And they continue to expand languages. According to them, they want to offer the service for all the languages of the world.
The system is capable of recognize people speaking in all kinds of situations; in a quiet place, in a restaurant or bar, on the street, inside cars, etc. Y also all possible dialects and accents. Thus, you can recognize a Galician as well as a Catalan or an Andalusian, each with their own peculiar accent. At the moment the only limitation is that he does not understand a language with the accent of another. In other words, a Frenchman speaking Spanish, mispronouncing the “r’s”. But hey, no one is perfect.
To be able to try this service, you simply must tap the microphone icon (in case you have Android). If you work with iPhone or BlackBerry, you must activate the service by selecting the language in the configuration panel of the application. If you don’t have the app yet, what are you waiting for? free.
We must be aware that this application is the first step towards a new and revolutionary system search and interaction with the computer. Not only for mobiles, but for all kinds of devices. I’m not saying that the voice is going to cancel an input peripheral as endearing as the keyboard, but it is going to charge each time more importance within the world of the network, where more and more people use IP voice services like Skype to talk with customers, suppliers, family, or coworkers. If these users are able to communicate with the computer in a fluent way, as they do with a person, it is clear that talking is always easier than typing. And the law of least effort always wins.
In short, we are not that far from the typical science fiction movies where the protagonist talks to a computer that centralizes all kinds of services. If you are interested in the subject, you can find more information about Google Mobile, or in the articles. And if you want to see it working, here is a video demonstrating how .