How Voice Typing Is the New Best Feature of Google Docs

Voice recognition used to be horribly inaccurate. It only worked for a handful of people a handful of the times. But now it’s actually rather good, thanks to the combined efforts of Nuance, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, who have thrown countless resources at actually improving it. Of all those companies, few have matched the commitment to voice recognition of Google, who has made it a fundamental lynchpin of its mobile and services strategy. One of Google’s earliest forays was the short-lived GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search). It launched in 2008 and allowed people to search for business phone numbers using their voice....

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