Imagine a situation when you just can’t remember the spelling of a particular word or phrase. You want to find more information about the subject from search engines but you are unable to type it correctly or even pronounce it.
In the worst case, you don’t even know what that specific word means. Or it may even happen that your entire query contains 13 words which is too laborious to type.
The answer is finally here: search on Google.com with your voice.
Google has finally announced that they will be rolling out Google voice search to users who are surfing Google.com from their desktop computers. Although Google voice search is already available for Android mobile and tablet devices, Google wants to make sure that a large portion of their user base who surf Google from desktop, can also make use of this amazing voice search technology.
Just plug in that Microphone and speak out the words of your Query. And the best part here is that Google voice search from desktop will be supported on all browsers in coming months and it isn’t an ever lasting browser specific feature built only for Google Chrome.
How Google Voice Search Works
Google voice search for desktop computers works exactly the same as voice search for mobile does. In fact, there is a chrome extension which can be used to perform voice search on Google.com using the inbuilt or attached microphone of their desktop or laptop computers. It looks like Google wants to provide this feature to all users, but how far it will go remains a big question.
Using Google voice search from your desktop computer is fairly easy. Plug in that microphone, go to Google.com (from Google Chrome as of now) and hit the small “mic” icon on the search box. Next, speak out your search query or phrase and wait until Google is able to recognize the words you just said.
If your pronunciation is fairly clean, Google should pick it up and throw the words into the search box. No more rigorous typing over and over again
The following video screencast shows Google voice search in action:
When Is Google Voice Search Useful?
Google voice search is especially useful for long queries. Example: “How to do this and this and find this and this on this place”. Novice users have very less typing speed and if your mom can hardly remember all the keys of your computer’s keyboard, do her a favor and let her speak into the Google search box without having to type anything at all.
Another great use of voice search is when you don’t remember the exact spelling of a recipe, place, book, person or other “things”. You know how it is pronounced but you don’t know the letters in proper sequence. In those situations, the voice search can be a lifesaver.
The following video shows how Google voice search works inside Google Chrome:
Google voice Search On Desktop: Dem Video From Google Inside Search Event [14th June 2011]
The following video is from Google’s Inside search event help on 14th June, 2011. The video below shows a brief preview on how accurately Google can process voice queries and return results within a couple of seconds:
Google engineer says that as we hear more and more “voice searches” from various parts of the globe, our technology will get better and better. Voice search for Google is here to stay and overtime, users will find new and better ways to use Google.com to find information. As an example, Google might combine Google translate with Google’s speech recognition technology and offer better translations or enrich their existing translation inventory.
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