Smart phones usually have some level of voice activation. But the level now available in Android appears to be completely novel, as demonstrated in this video:

With your voice you can now send text messages and emails, access maps and navigation, leave messages for yourself, set alarms, call people, search Google, etc. I will admit – I find it hard to believe that it works as well in reality as it does in the video, simply because I have never seen a voice-activated system in the real world that did not make lots of mistakes. But maybe I am wrong.

Here’s an example. Watch the video around 1:55 where he says, “Map of art museums in Amsterdam”. Right now I am sitting at my powerful desktop computer. I am typing, not using voice. So I go to Google and type in “Map of art museums in Amsterdam”. It gives me a list of text links, like this:

I would expect to see a map to click on, but there isn’t one. Not a map in sight, yet Android pops immediately to a map. Maybe Android is smarter than Google on the desktop? It would be nice if Google on the desktop, in text, could do some of these things.

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