After an unexplained three-day delay, Google Inc. late Monday added voice capabilities to its search application for the iPhone. Google Mobile App 0.3.142 hit Apple’s App Store, the only official online mart for iPhone software from third-party developers, on Monday. It can be downloaded free of charge. After launching the application, the user waits for a tone, then speaks normally into the iPhone.In Computerworld tests, words and phrases were recognized correctly about 80% of the time, with the best results — no surprise — obtained when speaking slowly and distinctly. Still, as with any speech recognition software, Google’s application sometimes thinks it “hears” something completely different from what the user intended. Although it recognized “New York Times Obama” and “New York Times McCain” on the first try for each, it thought it heard “New York Times Halen” — and put the band Van Halen as the top search result — when “New York Times Palin” had actually been spoken.
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