Patent No. 7027987, of which Google is the assignee, concerns "a voice interface for search engines. Through the use of a language model, phonetic dictionary and acoustic models, a server generates an n-best hypothesis list or word graph."

The obvious eventual application is for cell phones.

Google's Voice Search has been pre-beta for over a year now, but this looks like something different.

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