Google Speech Recognition Future

The recent lawsuit between Microsoft and Google over Google's hiring of Kai-Fu Lee away from MSFT has new clues but personally I think everyone is missing the big picture of the clues and are distracted by the immediate lawsuit. The lawsuit is nothing, it will be settled and life will go on, there's something much bigger brewing. Last week I posted about Google and it's quest to hire the best and brightest in the Speech Recognition field and what they might be up to. Well it just so happens that Kai-Fu Lee is a Speech Recognition expert. Google's up to something that combines search and speech and I have a few ideas of what that might be but read this quote from the News.com story.

"Lee is known as a pioneer in speech-recognition technology, and he headed up the Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft. He also set up a Microsoft research center in China."

So combine the fact that China is the hottest country from the mergers and acquisitions sector of the internet and Google's got something up their sleeve in the speech recognition category and you've got some really good stuff to look forward to. Just remember to not let the trees block your view of the forest. I'm pretty bad at that from time to time as well.