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Google introduces Arabic voice search service

11 Dec 2011

(MENAFN) Google Inc. said that in a move that would help users convert data into knowledge, the world’s most popular search engine introduced an Arabic voice search service, reported Emirates 24/7.

The company added that Voice Search would use Google’s speech recognition technology to transfer the spoken word into text and run a search on Google, facilitating the process on people using their mobile phones to access the internet.

It also said that 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 delivers results.

It is worth noting that Google’s voice search is available in the UAE on Android 2.2+ and iPhone.

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