Google, Microsoft, and speech-to-text
An excellent post by Kontra at counternotions.com on Google’s strategy to grow and improve its search indexes, and how that strategy apparently confounds Microsoft:
It wouldn’t be far fetched, for example, to imagine Google could one day correlate location data from the iPhone GPS to dialect and pronunciation characteristics of the user or to any detectable variation in speech articulation between morning and late night timeframes, and so on. Google hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface of mine-ability of the immense datasets it’s been accumulating.
— Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots, Kontra, counternotions.com, December 3, 2008