Google upgrades voice search to make it quicker, more accurate even in noisy places

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Last Updated : Sep 25 2015 | 2:32 PM IST

Google has announced that it has updated its voice search tool on Android and iOS which makes it faster and brings more accurate results even when used in noisy surroundings.

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According to The Next Web, the company says that it is now built better neural network acoustic models using Connectionist Temporal Classification and sequence discriminative training techniques to upgrade its voice search functionality.

The new voice technology allows the voice search engine predict phonemes more quickly and differentiate between similar sounding letters.

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First Published: Sep 25 2015 | 2:14 PM IST

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