Google preparing voice activated search engine?

Google preparing voice activated search engine?

Google has just filed for a patent, which relates to a voice interface for search engines. It says: “Through the use of a language model, phonetic dictionary, and acoustic models, a server generates an n-best hypothesis list or word graph.”

This might mean that the search engine company is in the process of developing an audio capable search engine. The patent was published this week, though the filing date is February 2001. Google already has a demo of Google Voice Search on their Google Labs section for quite sometime now.

In fact, 2 years back Craig Silverstein, the director of technology at Google had said that the company eventually aims at providing a voice interface to all their services. However, they have said that the media should not read too much into the publication of the patent.

Google spokesperson Barry Schnitt said in a statement: “We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our employees may come up with. Some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don’t. Prospective product announcements should not be inferred from our patent applications.”