Google get's voice search patent

[POLiSH]

Google News:

Voice interface for a search engine
What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing search results, comprising: receiving a voice search query from a user; deriving one or more recognition hypotheses from the voice search query, each recognition hypothesis being associated with a weight and including one or more terms; constructing a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses, the constructing including: determining a length of a shortest recognition hypothesis, pruning a length of each recognition hypothesis up to the length of the shortest recognition hypothesis, determining a length of a longest pruned recognition hypothesis, selecting a number of recognition hypotheses based on one or more query parameters, determining term weights, and forming a weighted boolean query; providing the weighted boolean query to a search system; and providing results of the search system...(more)

Google is always moving ahead....Good luck to them.. :first:

 

[SouthernTn]

cant wait!

 

[Matvey]

I really can wait. But thats really cool. The fact that this kind of technology is out there is just <3

 

[taboo]

This is strongly because of the fact Google believes mobile devices will make up for a larger percentage of the net in the next decade, and voice search will make it much easier on mobile business.