Again another fiesta that I have heard about Google from Youtube.com - first, I should point to a funny parody of the supposed Google Android on Youtube, which takes the concept of Google Adsense (ads based on keywords on the webpage) and extends it to speech-recognition of words spoken on the phone to "speak" relevant ads.
Well then, as you know, Google Android aka Dream Phone is a mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system and developed by the Open Handset Alliance. There have been many rumors about what it will ultimately look like, with several parodies of it circling YouTube, especially this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naUnXplUtrQ
I decided to check out the URL. Sure enough it had two fields - one for entering in your phone number (From) and another field for the destination number (To). Further, the top of the page boldly claims "Google dream phone, android, gphone... whatever its called. Here's a live demo! demo1.0" I was skeptical to say the least, but figured I'd try this anyway.
The preview they gave for speech phrases the demo would recognize often were based in Mountain View, the headquarters of Google, such as "weather for Mountain View". Even asking "what are we doing tonight" was answered with movie times for Mountain View. Trying so hard to associate Google's HQ location made me even more skeptical this was legit. Speech recognition and the ability to conference in two legs of a call is nothing new.
I will say there are plenty of existing technologies that can do what this preview that they just did. Though perhaps this is a legit sample of Google Android. Perhaps Google and their partners just doing something? Who knows? If I had to make a prediction on this 2008, I'd say this is a hoax. But still pretty fascinating to be on a call and then have advertisements or information injected into the call depending on what you say. Be afraid... Be very afraid!
Meaning FREE CALL!!
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