Google's long stated vision, if not obsession, is turning your smartphone into the Star Trek computer. A key part of the computer on the Enterprise is that the primary means of interaction is through voice. The entire process mimics more asking a person a question rather than the 'typing out what you want to know into a search box' process that has made the Google so well known.
To meet this goal, the company has been continually doing massive research and investments into speech recognition and machine understanding. The latter is Google's Knowledge Graph, announced in 2012, that understands concepts and their relationships between things.
These massive investments in speech recognition and Knowledge Graph ultimately culminated with Google Now. If ever there was a thing that paralleled the Star Trek computer in real life, it would be Now and its ability to provide verbal responses to verbally-asked questions. Now, Google is pushing the tech even further with Marshmallow and the new Nexus devices... Read more of this post
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