Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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.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

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