Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Staff Research Scientist and Johan Schalkwyk, Senior Staff EngineerWelkom*!Today we’re introducing Voice Search support for Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as South African-accented English. The addition of Zulu in particular represents our first effort in building Voice Search for underrepresented languages.We define underrepresented languages as those which, while spoken by millions, have little presence in electronic and physical media, e.g., webpages, newspapers and magazines. Underrepresented languages have also often...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Suggesting a Better Remote Control
Posted on 13:12 by Unknown
Posted by Ullas Gargi and Rich Gossweiler, Research TeamIt seems clear that the TV is a growing source of online audio-video content that you select by searching. Entering characters of a search string one by one using a traditional remote control and onscreen keyboard is extremely tiresome. People have been working on building better ways to search on the TV, ranging from small keyboards to voice input to interesting gestures you might make to let the TV know what you want. But currently the traditional left-right-up-down clicker dominates as...
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