Durita Hansen from Google

I saw this post (linked above) by Michael Friis and thought it was a crazy story. As a language enthusiast and Android fanatic I had to try it for myself.

And today I did! I said 500 pretty random Danish search terms at a cafe near Nørreport. It’ll help voice search enter the Danish market. Once the service is launched in Denmark Google will use the incoming voices queries to form a basis for more advanced voice-to-text to be used for SMS, email etc.

Contact cand.ling.merc. Durita Hansen at duritah@google.com if you want to help out. Takes just half an hour. Durita is from the Farao Islands and we talked a bit about the awesomeness of Google including languages from smallish cultures such as ours. I’m sure they’ll know how to make a buck on even the smallest language of the world but you still have to value their commitment.

And since you must know, I didn’t get to say any dirty words like Michael did, but personal highlights included “modne kvinder knalder bedre” and “nedstigning to helvede”.