New Google Voice Patent

Under works at Google is a new voice patent that will provide search results from a voice-activated query. Unlike current voice recognition systems, whose limited vocabulary requires users to speak slowly and clearly, and often leads to frustration, the Google voice system will allow for natural-language queries. "Junk" words like a, an, the, of, etc. will be filtered out and only the relevant keywords will be queried (just like Google.com). Although the demo page is still up at Google Labs, the demo is no longer active. Still, the Google phone number (650-623-6706) for search queries is published there and I may just go ahead and proactively program that into my phone. The real-world application of this patent would allow you to call the Google Search number from your cell, speak your search phrase, and then the search results would be sent to your cell where you could click on them.

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M2Z is a wireless broadband startup brought to you by the FCC’s wireless bureau’s former head, John Muleta, and Milo Medin, who, at 23, built a NASA data network that became the huge NASA Science Internet, linking researchers in 16 countries and six continents. M2Z wants to build a wireless network that will offer you a third option to cable and DSL. The service would be offered for free, and would be supported by advertising. "M2Z’s ultimate goal, through its own service, is to drive development of the broadband marketplace so that access is affordable and future penetration levels are near-ubiquitous throughout the country," their FCC filing states. They are asking the FCC to grant them a 15-year license so they can offer free 512 kilobits per second broadband service. (source: Reuters)

The full FCC filing is availalbe here in a PDF file. A free wireless internet would be great, but it sounds too good to be true. Om Malik thinks so. Hmm…so do I.