# Google Research — ​​Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R): A new approach to voice search

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2025-10-07T15:22:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/speech-to-retrieval-s2r-a-new-approach-to-voice-search/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1409-speech-to-retrieval-s2r-a-new-approach-to-voice-search

Google Research introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R), a new approach to voice search that directly interprets spoken queries without transcribing them to text first, and open-sources the Simple Voice Questions (SVQ) dataset for evaluating S2R performance.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/speech-to-retrieval-s2r-a-new-approach-to-voice-search/:

> In addition, we are open-sourcing the Simple Voice Questions (SVQ) dataset, a collection of short audio questions recorded in 17 different languages and 26 locales, which we used to evaluate the performance potential of S2R.

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