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 Although the demo page is still up at Google Labs, the demo is no longer active.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.