What’s Next For Google Voice Actions? A Discussion With Google’s Mobile Tea

Why go to press conference, when the press conference can come to you?
This morning Google held a press event in San Francisco to unveil a few new Android features including Google Voice Actions. Currently comprised of 13 “actions,” the sleek app allows user to verbally command their phones to perform a wide array of tasks such as to call a friend, find directions, dictate and send e-mail/text messages, call any business on Google Search, find songs, etc. As my colleague MG Siegler writes, it’s “awesomely fast and accurate” and only available on the Android.

After the event, several key members of Google’s mobile team— including Hugo Barra (Director of Product Management), Mike LeBeau (Sr. Software Engineer), Fernando Delgado (Product Manager) and Dave Burke (Engineering Manager) — dropped by TechCrunch’s SF headquarters to give us a deeper dive into Android’s flashy new toys. Barra and LeBeau, who you will probably recognize as the star of the adorably dorky demo video, discussed the future of Google Voice Actions and its technology on TechCrunch TV. See video above.