It is always fun when developers build interesting tools on top of new innovations and products. Google released voice search for the desktop during its big search announcement on June 14 and since then a group of developers have been dreaming up new ways to make it useful and fun.
The product that emerged is called the Verbalizer out of the labs of Breakfast, a group of inventors in New York City. Verbalizer is an open source developer board that is functions as a microphone that will work with Google voice search and can be manipulated look like almost anything to perform searches.
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Breakfast says that, out of the box, touching any spot on the Verbalizer device will trigger a Google voice search from up to 10 meters away. So, imagine a computer monitor hanging on a wall in your living room. A construct could be set up where to cue the Verbalizer when you walk in the room and ask it to search for anything on the Internet, without sitting down to a keyboard.
Here is how Breakfast describes the Verbalizer:
“The Verbalizer connects wirelessly to your computer via Bluetooth and when triggered, opens google.com in a new tab and activates Voice Search. An audio notification is played signaling Google is ready for your query, which is spoken into the on-board mic. The board is Arduino compatible and we left some I/O pins open, so it’s easy for anyone to jump in and create something nutty with it.”
Breakfast held a working group earlier in the week so developers could put Verbalizer through the paces and create new uses for it. See the video below for what they came up with.
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