{"id":39502,"date":"2013-11-27T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=39502"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:34:18","slug":"desktop-google-voice-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/11\/desktop-google-voice-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Google Voice Search On Your Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen.\u00a0Google Voice Search can now be done from your desktop and laptop without clicking any button, directly from the Chrome browser. Similar to how Google Glass users say <a title=\"How to Know Google Glass is Taking Your Photo, Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/google-glass-taking-photo-video\/\">OK Glass<\/a> to activate actions, OK Google is the new way to talk to Google\u00a0&#8230; and this brings the power of Google search to your desktop.<\/p>\n<h2>Google Voice Search<\/h2>\n<p>If you visit the Google.com on any Google Chrome, you can anyway click the microphone icon and start speaking for Google to initiate a Google search. But if you install the Google Voice Search Hotword Chrome extension, then when you visit Google.com, your microphone stays active listening to when you say &#8216;<strong>OK Google<\/strong>&#8216;, which is the keyword phrase that prompts it to initiate a search for whatever is spoken after that.<\/p>\n<p>See this video on how this works<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNBBijn4JuY\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although they claim this works right now in English language in the US only, I was easily able to install and run this extension in India. See how my Google.com form has changed to show &#8216;Say OK Google&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39503\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"ok google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/ok-google.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/ok-google.png 440w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/ok-google-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/ok-google-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And when I say some keywords, it recognizes them easily and outputs a search result. It is amazing how accurately Google can recognize speech (though it is preferable to speak slowly and clearly for best results).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39504\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"google voice search\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-voice-search1.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-voice-search1.png 500w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-voice-search1-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-voice-search1-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what are you waiting for, download the chrome extension and start talking to Google without a keyboard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen.\u00a0Google Voice Search can now be done from your desktop and laptop without clicking any button,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}