Among other benefits, so-called big data is essential to creating better consumer services, including voice search. That’s according to a new research paper from Google, “More data
helps train smarter models, which can then better predict what someone say next -- letting you keep your eyes on the road,” as GigaOm explains. For inquiring minds, the research also goes into
detail about the science behind Google’s speech recognition applications, such as voice search and adding captions or tags to YouTube videos.