Google Maps started to support voice search

IDG (Mingxuan) August 26, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Google on Thursday announced that Google Maps (Google Maps) from now on will support voice search, but only in the Chrome browser, does not support Chinese.

user clicks on the Google Maps search box, you can use the voice microphone logo search. Tested, very good voice search accuracy. But does not support Chinese voice search.

Google said that users click on Google Maps search box, you can use the voice microphone logo search. Tested, very good voice search accuracy. But does not support Chinese voice search. Google technicians Jed Burgess (Jed Burgess) in the official blog that, "Using voice search, allowing users to more easily find those hard to spell names, such as Poughkeepsie (Poughkeepsie) or Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein) or spelling they do not want to search to find the route, such as 'the line from Los Angeles to San Francisco' and so on. "

launched Google Voice Search for a very long time. Back in 2008, the company has launched for Apple iPhone voice search service. At Google this summer's "Inside Search" conference, which began to be used for mobile technology among desktop. At that time, Google announced that users will be able to use the computer voice on the microphone to complete the search.

Google Chrome browser integration of voice in the beginning of May to switch the text (speech to text) function. If Google allows all users to use this feature, such as Microsoft IE, Firefox and other browser users, which Google may speed up the development of artificial intelligence.