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Google makes Android more Personal, with the latest Voice Recognition updates

What with technology advancing as quickly as it is, most companies are now concentrating on voice recognition. A bold move, to say the least! It takes a lot of thought and effort to make your phone actually understand what you are saying and then come up with results that make sense for what you are trying to do. However, there are plenty of hurdles that stand in the way of this procedure, and some of them include a number of variables like no one really sounds the same as another person. If you take into consideration many other factors like male or female, varying accents, etc, you’ll find that the hurdles are plenty. But with Google you never know what can happen next! Google has been trying to tackle these obstacles by focusing on the personal aspects of voice recognition and have been using the latest update, which is the Android Voice Recognition Platform. This update now consists of a tool that users can access at anytime and literally train the Google Voice Recognition platform...

Google Street View reaching all 7 Continents

There are some unique and spectacular places on this planet and now Google has given an opportunity for all to see these places from the comfort of our home or office. This is a great news for all of us as Google just announced that Street View is available in all seven continents. Now Street View imagery has been added in Ireland, Antarctica and Brazil. As we know road names and street addresses are quite difficult to come by in Antarctica, but Google has developed a Street View image gallery, which will help people get started in Antarctica and other locations around the world. This is a cool adventure as we can explore the world that is hard to reach and at the same time it is a good marketing and public positioning for Google, especially when they are in this ongoing privacy and legal issues over Street View. Google has updated in its blog post that the Street View images in Antarctica are quite limited to the area known as Half Moon Island. You may also see many photos across the ...