Use Chrome Extension to Speak and Search on the Internet

Voice search is a Google Chrome extension that provides a method to search by speaking. Nowadays most of the smart phones have the ability to accept voice commands and perform actions and this experimental add-on will allow us to search by speaking out the words we want to search on the internet.

Voice search is a Google Chrome extension that provides a method to search by speaking. Nowadays  most of the smart phones have the ability to accept voice commands and perform actions and this experimental add-on will allow us to search by speaking out the words we want to search on the internet.This is a really amazing add-on and goes on to show the capabilities built into Google Chrome.

How to use it:

  • If you want to search for “cats” just click on the microphone and say “cats”. If you want pictures of cat say “google images cats”.

Features and requirements:

It comes preloaded with the following services :

  • Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Wolfram|Alpha.
  • We can also add our own custom search engines.
  • It also integrates a speech input button for all websites using HTML5 search boxes like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Github.
  • Requires a microphone.

Drawback:

  • Speech input is experimental and hence speech recognition is not perfect.

Link: Google Chrome Voice Search

One Comment

Huzaifa Darbar December 28, 2010

I think this is not going to work, its better to write 4 keyword instead.