October 31st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator, with a particular emphasis on network research and education. ns-3 aims to allow researchers to move effortlessly between simulations, testbeds, and live experiments. It is designed to offer a high degree of …
October 31st, 2012 | by Ariel | published in Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Posted by Li-Wei Lee, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog.) With Google+, you can share what you want with just the right people. That might be pictures from your team offsite or an article from your favorite new blog. Starting tod…
October 31st, 2012 | by Sarah Neels, CPG Marketing | published in Google CPG
Take your social strategy to the next level with Learn with Google Hangouts and Webinars
Over the next few weeks, we’re offering four opportunities to learn more about Google+ for your business. We kick off with a Learn with Google Hangout on Air with bestselling author +Chris Brogan on November 5th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Chris will cover tactics for successful social marketing and discuss his new book, “Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.” RSVP for the Hangout on the Google+ Event page.
Learn Chris’s recipes for how to grow and engage your Google+ community to build your brand and drive your business’s visibility and conversions. Hear about Chris’s own experiences helping companies succeed in their content marketing and social projects. Chris Brogan is a New York Times bestselling author, CEO of Human Business Works, and advises companies on marketing, business strategy, communications and more.
If you have a question for Chris, leave your question as a comment on the Google+ Event.
Boost your success with Google+
Want to learn more about using Google+ for your business? Sign up for our Learn with Google webinars. Here are some great upcoming webinars to help you get the most out of social for your business:
- Social that Adds Up: Performance and Measurement (Thurs, Nov 8, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
- Supercharge your Social Media Initiatives with Video (Wed, Nov 14, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
- Building a Digital Brand with Google+ (Thurs, Dec 6, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
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October 31st, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
Over the next few weeks, we’re offering four opportunities to learn more about Google+ for your business. We kick off with a Learn with Google Hangout on Air with bestselling author +Chris Brogan on November 5th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Chris will cover …
October 31st, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
A few months ago, we announced Google Earth for mobile, which offered new ways to see cities in 3D and a new tour guide feature to help you discover places of interest on the go. Starting today, you can get both of those features on a bigger screen tha…
October 31st, 2012 | by Minqi Jiang | published in Google Translate
Mahatma Gandhi tells us that “Love is the strongest force the world possesses.” Love comes in many forms, and each has different translations. Today, we are introducing three new features to Google Translate that help to distinguish among translations …
October 31st, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we are launching AMBER Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform. Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they’re relevant to …
October 31st, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Ciprian Chelba, Research Scientist
At Google, we’re able to use the large amounts of data made available by the Web’s fast growth. Two such data sources are the anonymized queries on google.com and the web itself. They help improve automatic speech recognition through large language models: Voice Search makes use of the former, whereas YouTube speech transcription benefits significantly from the latter.
The language model is the component of a speech recognizer that assigns a probability to the next word in a sentence given the previous ones. As an example, if the previous words are “new york”, the model would assign a higher probability to “pizza” than say “granola”. The n-gram approach to language modeling (predicting the next word based on the previous n-1 words) is particularly well-suited to such large amounts of data: it scales gracefully, and the non-parametric nature of the model allows it to grow with more data. For example, on Voice Search we were able to train and evaluate 5-gram language models consisting of 12 billion n-grams, built using large vocabularies (1 million words), and trained on as many as 230 billion words.
The computational effort pays off, as highlighted by the plot above: both word error rate (a measure of speech recognition accuracy) and search error rate (a metric we use to evaluate the output of the speech recognition system when used in a search engine) decrease significantly with larger language models.
A more detailed summary of results on Voice Search and a few YouTube speech transcription tasks (authors: Ciprian Chelba, Dan Bikel, Maria Shugrina, Patrick Nguyen, Shankar Kumar) presents our results when increasing both the amount of training data, and the size of the language model estimated from such data. Depending on the task, availability and amount of training data used, as well as language model size and the performance of the underlying speech recognizer, we observe reductions in word error rate between 6% and 10% relative, for systems on a wide range of operating points.
Cross-posted with the Research at Google G+ Page
October 31st, 2012 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
This post is the second of our two-part series discussing how Udacity uses Google App Engine.Today’s guest blogger is Chris Chew, senior software engineer at Udacity, which offers free online courses in programming and other subjects. Chris sh…
October 31st, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
In 2011, Google Earth Outreach launched a new program to fund nonprofits that want to create cutting-edge maps for public good. Today, we’re excited to announce the winners of the 2012 Google Earth Outreach Developer Grants program. We’ve selected …
October 31st, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
(Cross posted from Geo Developer Blog) In 2011, Google Earth Outreach launched a new program to fund nonprofits that want to create cutting-edge maps for public good. Today, we’re excited to announce the winners of the 2012 Google Earth Outreach…
October 31st, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
What does a cable car in Niagara Falls have to do with the world’s first chess-playing machine? Surprisingly, both were inventions of Spanish civil engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo. Next week, as part of our ongoing effort to celebrate Europe’s co…
October 30th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
Google Analytics has been a great place to analyze the performance of your Google advertising programs, but a piece of the puzzle has been missing: analyzing return on investment across all your digital channels. That’s why we’re happy to announce …
October 30th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Over the next few weeks, we’re offering five opportunities to learn more about Google+ for your business. We kick off with a Learn with Google Hangout on Air with bestselling author +Chris Brogan on November 5th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Chris will cover …
October 30th, 2012 | by Anthony Vallone | published in Uncategorized
By The GTAC Committee
The next and seventh GTAC (Google Test Automation Conference) will be held on April 23-24, 2013 at the beautiful Google New York office! We had a late start preparing for GTAC, but things are now falling into place. This will be the second time it is hosted at our second largest engineering office. We are also sticking with our tradition of changing the region each year, as the last GTAC was held in California.
The GTAC event brings together engineers from many organizations to discuss test automation. It is a great opportunity to present, learn, and challenge modern testing technologies and strategies. We will soon be recruiting speakers to discuss their innovations.
This year’s theme will be “Testing Media and Mobile“. In the past few years, substantial changes have taken place in both the media and mobile areas. Television is no longer the king of media. Over 27 billion videos are streamed in the U.S. per month. Over 1 billion people now own smartphones. HTML5 includes support for audio, video, and scalable vector graphics, which will liberate many web developers from their dependence on third-party media software. These are incredibly complex technologies to test. We are thrilled to be hosting this event in which many in the industry will share their innovations.
Registration information for speakers and attendees will soon be posted here and on the GTAC site (https://developers.google.com/gtac). Even though we will be focusing on “Testing Media and Mobile”, we will be accepting proposals for talks on other topics.