Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Commit ecaf3f4f authored by Roman Nurik's avatar Roman Nurik
Browse files

Add link to Speech Input article to resource browser, tweak outdated information in the article.

Change-Id: I5715f8bf7f2f11e5005cc3e9541846ac06797ac6
parent 904f4810
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
+9 −7
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ are. That means not just talking, but e-mailing, texting, microblogging, and so
on. </p>

<p>Speech input adds another dimension to staying in touch.
Google's Voice Search application, which is pre-installed on many Android devices,
provides powerful features like "search by voice" and voice shortcuts like "Navigate to." Further
Google's Voice Search application, which is pre-installed on many Android devices
and available in Android Market, provides powerful features like "search by voice"
and Voice Actions like "Navigate to." Further
enhancing the voice experience, Android 2.1 introduces a <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOlkD8LmZw">
voice-enabled keyboard</a>, which makes it even easier
@@ -66,9 +67,7 @@ many Android devices, responds to a <em>RecognizerIntent</em> by displaying the
"Speak
now" dialog and streaming audio to Google's servers -- the same servers used
when a user taps the microphone button on the search widget or the voice-enabled
keyboard. Voice Search is installed on all the major
US devices, and it's also available on Market. You can check whether Voice
Search is installed in 
keyboard. You can check whether Voice Search is installed in 
<strong>Settings > Applications > Manage applications</strong>. </p>

<p> One important tip: for speech input to be as accurate as possible, it's
@@ -84,7 +83,10 @@ web_search} for shorter, search-like phrases. We developed the "free form"
model to improve dictation accuracy for the voice keyboard,
while the "web search" model is used when users want to search by voice. </p> 

<p> Google's servers currently support English, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese. 
<p> Google's servers support many languages for voice input, with more arriving
regularly. You can use the
{@link android.speech.RecognizerIntent#ACTION_GET_LANGUAGE_DETAILS}
broadcast intent to query for the list of supported languages.
The web search model is available in all three languages, while free-form has
primarily been optimized for English. As we work hard to support more models in
more languages, and to improve the accuracy of the speech recognition technology
+10 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ var ANDROID_RESOURCES = [
      en: 'Quick Search Box (QSB) is a powerful, system-wide search framework. QSB makes it possible for users to quickly and easily find what they\'re looking for, both on their devices and on the web. This article discusses how to work with the QSB framework to add new search results for an installed application.'
    }
  },
  {
    tags: ['article', 'input', 'search', 'ui'],
    path: 'articles/speech-input.html',
    title: {
      en: 'Speech Input'
    },
    description: {
      en: 'This articles describes the basics of integrating speech recognition into Android applications.'
    }
  },
  {
    tags: ['article', 'ui'],
    path: 'articles/touch-mode.html',