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Google Now Detects Accents & Mimics

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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google Now is still a half measure for many Android users, the cards look like the most potent part of the program, but the voice recognition service still needs a bit of work. A new feature looks to make it easier for multiple language users to swap over on the fly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The new system allows users to add more than one language, swapping from one another on the fly. This could allow localisation for user’s who move country often. Google Now can even detect accent change, as </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYBuS0jM5o&channel=shadow321337" style="color: #0068cf; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">one video shows</a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Moving from English (UK) and English (US) is completely impractical for anyone, but does show the voice recognition service has a good understanding of accent, something Apple’s Siri has not been great at detecting, especially stronger English accents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Accents are a hard thing for programmers to understand, voice recognition naturally works with one voice, but Google is looking to add multiple languages and accents. This means Google needs to take more real world accents and voices, to get the practical information needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google Now and voice recognition in general is still a questionable service, but there are some uses like taking notes, setting dates and asking for travel times. Google, Apple and other voice recognition services just need to fan out some of the clutter in their services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The secondary language option is available now, but not to everyone. Google is restricting it to some countries and it may take a while for them to update it on all Android devices.</span></div>
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Google Now Detects Accents & Mimics

Google Now is still a half measure for many Android users, the cards look like the most potent part of the program, but the voice recognit...

google has joined hands with pharmaceutical company and expected to launch smart contact lenses

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<a href="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Google podpisało umowę z firmą farmaceutyczną, która ma wprowadzić do sklepów inteligentne szkła kontaktowe" border="0" src="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In January of this year, Google X Lab praised the development of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">contact lenses</strong> with a miniature chip, measuring the level of glucose in tears.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today, Mountain View has announced that it has partnered with one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which aims to bring the product to market.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Swiss company <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis</strong> apparently sees in this type of sensors big money.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The company, which last year recorded the highest sales of all firms in the industry , intends to invest in the development of the technology developed byGoogle X Lab through dealing with ophthalmology subsidiary Alcon. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis</strong> has already acquired a license to technology developed by <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</strong> and intends to introduce it to the market.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are pleased that we can work together with Google to connect their advanced technology with our extensive knowledge of the biology and together satisfy unmet medical needs," said CEO of NovartisJoseph Jimenez.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is extremely important for us to start from ophthalmology, to go beyond the existing boundaries of the treatment of diseases."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Our dream is to make use of the latest technology miniaturization of electronics, improve the quality of life of millions of people," added Sergey Brin.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are pleased that we will be able to realize this dream together with Novartis."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to business plans to market lenses for diabetics, the agreement also provides for cooperation in research on more advanced contact lenses fitted with microchips.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: rgb(230, 236, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis suggests that such lenses may, for example, automatically in accommodating alleviate eye problems that arise in the case of presbyopia .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although it sounds very interesting, keep in mind that it will be some time before the pharmacy you can buy contact lenses that measure glucose levels and wirelessly transmit data about mobile device.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</strong> claimed the prototype, the company claimed that the development of the final product should take about five years.</span></span></div>
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google has joined hands with pharmaceutical company and expected to launch smart contact lenses

In January of this year, Google X Lab praised the development of contact lenses with a miniature chip, measuring the level of glucose in...

Google letting curious explorers take Glass for a free spin

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Glass has run the opinion gamut from "<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/09/google-glass-parkinsons-uk-trial/" style="color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none;">great</a>" to "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-assaulted-for-wearing-google-glass-2014-4" style="color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hate</a>" to "surprisingly useful," but Google thinks you should forget all that. We just received an invitation (after the break) to several Google Glass "Basecamp" offices with the following teaser: "There's a lot of talk about Glass, but have you tried it for yourself yet?" If you're near San Francisco, LA or New York, you'll need to <a href="https://support.google.com/glass/answer/6021600?hl=en" style="color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">schedule an invitation</a> for a fitting, service or a demo. For those worried about the original, not-so-stylish <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/2999x1996+0+0/resize/630x419!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/a4dd63d9fadc5c57bb737e4d45329be9/200119256/147229908.jpg" style="color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cyborg look</a>, Google has hooked up with couture magnateDiane Von Furstenberg to create more normal eyewear designs. And of course, anybodycan get them now -- as long as you're willing to burn $1,500.</span></div>
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Google letting curious explorers take Glass for a free spin

Glass has run the opinion gamut from " great " to " hate " to "surprisingly useful," but Google thinks you...