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Google Search By Voice In Mandarin Chinese
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Tue 03 Nov 2009
Google is truly going international - by incorporating Mandarin Chinese in their voice search. Smart move, since Chinese is the next widely spoken language next to English. While the program is still in the initial stages of further development, it looks set to improve over time, perhaps even being able to understand different Chinese dialects.
googlemobile.blogspot.com - Up until now voice search has only been available in English, but the new version of Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 devices works for Mandarin speakers, too. We're really proud of the work we've done with Mandarin speech recognition, both because it's the most spoken language in the world, and because of the engineering challenge. To get Mandarin speech recognition to work, we had to learn a lot about this fascinating language — the differences between traditional and simplified Chinese, its tonal characteristics, automatic segmentation of text into words, pinyin representations of Chinese characters, sandhi rules, the different accents and languages in China, unicode representations of Chinese character sets...the list goes on and on.
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