Google Voice Search: Can you hear me?

Google just released the highly anticipated voice search for the iPhone. I must admit, its more fun that most of the other games I have installed.

Sometimes its incredibly precise but most of the time it makes hilarious mistakes: “Cocktail recipes” become “Cocaine recipes”, “Snow Patrol” becomes “low cut throat” …

This experience strongly reminds me of experimenting with the handwriting recognition on the first Apple Newton 15 years ago.

All in all definitely room for improvement, but if one day the quality is right (like the textbased one), it will be a huge helper application …