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March 30 2010
March 10 2010
How Google Uses your Voice
I’m always amazed by the innovative ways in which Google uses the raw data it collects. The New York Times mentioned something really interesting about how Google used recorded voices to create a better speech recognition system:
In 2007… [Google] began offering 800-GOOG-411, a free directory assistance service that interprets spoken requests. It allowed Google to collect the voices of millions of people so it could get better at recognizing spoken English.
A year later, Google released a search-by-voice system that was as good as those that took other companies years to build.
Tags: Google, Innovation
March 9 2010
Is the Nexus One Online Sales Model Failing?
ZDNet is reporting that the online-only sales model for the Nexus One may be responsible for missed targets:
Goldman Sachs reduced sales estimates from 3.5 million units in 2010 to a mere 1 million, and only 2 million in 2011 if they launch a second phone, do a lot more marketing themselves, and decide to sell it in retail stores too.
UPDATE: 74 days after its launch, 135,000 Nexus One devices have been sold. By comparison, after an initial 74 days the Motorola Droid sold 1.05 million and the iPhone sold 1.0 million.
Tags: Google