The Voice Search app currently being used on Android has been updated by Google to be that little more personal. The voice feature which was launched two years ago that allows you to give commands to your phone without having to use any buttons will now learn how you speak with personalized recognition. In regards to the new feature, Google has said, "The first time you use Voice Search, you'll be presented with a dialog to turn on personalized recognition", making this feature entirely optional for users.
On the Google blog, they said "We built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents, or variations in pitch, pace, and other factors. But we always knew we could build a more accurate model by listening to your voice, and learning how you — as a unique individual — speak. So today we're launching personalized recognition."
It went on to say, "If you opt into personalized recognition, we begin to associate the recordings of the words that you ask us to recognize with your Google account. We then automatically use these words to build a speech model specifically for you. This speech model enables us to deliver greater recognition accuracy. Although subtle, accuracy improvements begin fairly quickly and will build over time."
This kind of update may encourage more users to open up to using voice activated features, with many being likely reserved due to mistakes and misinterpretations. The update of the Voice Search app requires the user to have Android 2.2 or higher, and is available from the Android Marketplace for English-speaking US users. When the new update will be available to other regions is currently unknown.
Via: Pocket Lint