Google’s future apps to have voice output

Google has just acquired Phonetic Arts, a company from England that specializes in voice synthesizing for video games. In an announcement made on the official Google blog, they wrote about their recent breakthroughs in voice input technology (Voice Search, Voice Input, and Voice Actions) for mobile phones and they plan to take it to the next level by creating apps that speak to you. With speaking being the most natural way to communicate, it’s only fitting to have apps that can respond to the way you input commands, and the technology developed by Phonetic Arts will help to achieve it. Phonetic Arts have come up with a way to automatically generate voice output that doesn’t sound like it was being read by Microsoft Sam. It’ll probably take some time before we get apps that speak to us as though it was human, but it’s good to know that it’s being worked on to get us there someday. Find out more about Phonetic Arts here.