Voice search and search by images are new features from Google. It’s like a dream come true. I was thinking about this a long time ago when I had an image of an unknown animal and wanted to know what it was. At the time I asked in forums and some people gave me the answer. So I thought: if only someday Google would have that kind of feature. And it came true.
Google Voice Search
I was thinking back to when Microsoft released Vista, and I trained my laptop to do voice recognition. Even though it still had a lot of mistakes, I felt that it was a cool feature. And now Google has implemented it in Google Search. Now you can do Voice Search on Google. Even though it is not new — Google released this voice search for iPhone and Android users before — it has now come to desktop users. You just need to use the latest Google Chrome to do voice search on Google. Check this video:
Google Search by Image
This dream-come-true feature has arrived in Google image search. Now we can search using our images. Search by image means you can upload images straight to the search engine and Google will search through the image file and attempt to locate any similar images and return the terms they’re associated with, as the company explained in a blog post:
If you click the camera, you can upload any picture or plug in an image URL from the web and ask Google to figure out what it is. Try it out when digging through old vacation photos and trying to identify landmarks
How it works:
Google uses computer vision techniques to match your image to other images in the Google Images index and additional image collections. From those matches, we try to generate an accurate “best guess” text description of your image, as well as find other images that have the same content as your search image. Your search results page can show results for that text description as well as related images.
Check this video:
What’s next?
I wish someday Google will implement search by audio. Because I have some unknown mp3 files, but I don’t know who the composer or singer is.