Arabic Voice Service from Google
December 23, 2011
It’s about time. MENAFN reveals, “Google Introduces Arabic Voice Search Service.” Google is working to incorporate Arabic into its Voice Search for mobile phones. Voice Search is currently available in the United Arab Emirates on Android phones (version 2.2 and above) and iPhones.
Achieving that functionality is not as simple as it may sound. We learned from the write up:
The process would begin when Google streams sound files to their datacenters in real-time, then they would turn the audio information into phonemes, into words, into phrases, finally, Google would compare phrases against the billions of daily queries to assign probability scores to all possible transcriptions and deliver results.
Whew. This is why I’m not a developer. The Arabic speaking world is a huge market; Google’s move makes good sense. One question. How does the service work in a noisy restaurant?
Cynthia Murrell, December 23, 2011
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