Google Voice Search Now Understands Chinese, Supposedly
Mashable reports that the Google Mobile App, a cell phone app that can use voice recognition technology to allow users to search Google by speaking their request instead of typing it, now offers voice search in Chinese as well!
It's a big development, um, they think. They're not quite positive yet. From Mashable:
"[Mandarin Chinese is] the first language, other than English, that the Google Mobile App can supposedly decipher, though we currently have no way to test how accurate it is."
No way to test how accurate it is? By some estimations, 1.6 billion people speak Chinese. That's nearly a quarter of all people on the planet!
Mashable, I realize you don't have the reporting standards of the New York Times, but at least have some truth in your blogging. Just say, "We are currently too lazy and ethnocentric to run down to Chinatown and check this out. Plus the smell of raw seafood makes us sick. Though I am planning on taking the Chinatown bus up to LA next week. Maybe I can sort all this out then."
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