My new Google Nexus One phone is running Android 2.1, and makes use of the Google beta voice recognition.
Summary: To date, I give it a 6/10. It didn't work too well for me, but shows significant promise.
For this facility, the actual processing is performed online - your phone captures a sentence, uploads it to a voice recognition service, and it is processed, and the results sent back (very quickly).
I should also point out that voice recognition that is performed to dial people from your address book, does not require an online connection, and is handled within the phone itself, for example, I can say 'Call Steve Clarke', and it works quite reliably.
For me, the online software, which is used for text and email dictation, and GPS destination searching, is a bit of a struggle:
I said: "This is the google voice recognition software. So far so good. I have a very mild lancashire accent and this software seems to struggle with long words and complicated sentences."
It typed: "This is the google voice recognition software. So far so good. I have a very mild length transaction. Famous software seems to struggle with long words uncomplicated sentences."
It seems to me that the software struggles with spoken contractions of words, for example, I said "andcomplicated". I also suspect that it struggles with words that aren't in the US based dictionary, for example, 'Lancashire', which is pronounce by most people either lank-i-shuh, or lank-uh-shuh.
Nice try though, and I look forward to upgrades on the processing server which will recognise me !
All in all, it is much better than the Windows Vista recognition - see my blog on 'Windows Vista does not like northeners'.
From the looks of it, things are getting better. Take a look at a 2008 article on the Telegraph website.
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