Ever at the forefront of search technology, Google has patented a system that uses voice commands for searching. If, indeed Google intends to develop this, I’d say it’s most likely for use with telephony applications, say through mobile phones, landlines, or VoIP.
The patent describes the interface as “a system (that) provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.”
{ via The Regsiter }