Apple and Google are also working on natural language comprehension for use in voice-activiated search engines for phones.

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Voice Search is much faster and better now at understanding natural language.

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Some focus on phonetic search or various other voice indexing technologies whose accuracy rate depends on the quality of the line recording, the language spoken and the dialect.

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