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Google Voice Search for Android gets personalized voice recognition
The standard voice recognition models in Google's Android Voice Search works well for most people, but now you can turn on custom voice recognition to make Voice Search more accurate for you. Google will associate recordings of your spoken searches with your account, building up a voice model that it can use to accurately recognize your voice. According to the Google Mobile Blog, you'll notice subtle improvements right away. So far, it's only available for English speakers in the U.S., but Google hopes to release it for other languages and locations soon.Personalized recognition is an opt-in feature, so you don't have to let Google analyze your voice if you do't want to. If you've already started using personalized recognition and you decide to stop, you can remove the voice recordings from your account in the "Speech" section of the Google Dashboard. Personalized recognition is only available on Android 2.2 or higher, but the latest version of the Voice Search app has speed and accuracy improvements that make it worth downloading for all Android users.
You can download the new Voice Search from the Android Market using the QR code after the jump.
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Subscribe to commentsMitchRapp81Dec 14th 2010 6:02PM
no such thing as a "Speech" entry in our google dashboard ... and can't change the settings from the speech section on my Nexus One ...
weird huh!
(yes, I updated voice search just now)
justbryan76Dec 15th 2010 11:07AM
@MitchRapp81
Look in your apps under "voice search". When the "Speak Now" box comes up, hit the menu button.
MitchRapp81Dec 15th 2010 11:15AM
@justbryan76 yeah I know that, it goes to your "Voice input and output" options .... and those haven't changed on my stock N1 2.2.1 .......... weird huh
MitchRapp81Dec 15th 2010 11:18AM
for the record, my Voice Search version is 2.1.1 and it is installed on my internal memory (i did not opt to move it to the SD)