Thursday, January 13, 2011

Voice Search Extension to Search by Speaking

Many Chrome extensions have played their role to enhance the productivity of the Chrome browser. Some extensions have also made the browser amusing to use. Voice Search is one such Chrome extensions that allows you to search by speaking. It’s an open source

Google Chrome extension that lets you search the web and various sites by speaking your keywords.


Some Key Features of Voice Search

  • Works with many search engines and websites.
  • Search the web by speaking keywords.
  • Adds a “mic” icon next to your address bar.
  • Add your own user-defined search engine.
For example, if you want to search for kittens, then simply click on microphone and say “kittens”. And if you want want pictures of kittens, say “Google images kittens”. Say “Wikipedia world war two”, if you want to learn more about World War II. By default, Voice Search comes pre-loaded with many popular search engines. Voice Search comes pre-loaded default services including Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Wolfram|Alpha. It allows you to add your own user-defined search engines. It uses HTML5 search boxes
to integrate a speech input button for all websites. The default search engines’ websites includes Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub.


Voice Search extension is available in the Chrome Web Store and already has over 16,000 users. The extension is still in development
phase but once fully developed, will provide an awesome functionality.

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