Google 'Voice Search' Feature Coming Soon To Google.com: Report

Don't touch that keyboard!

Google.com is reportedly testing a new "Voice Search" feature for desktop users.

According to Mashable, the search engine has made Voice Search available to a limited number of users.

Screenshots of the feature show a search bar sporting a small microphone icon that instructs the user to "Speak Now."

Ustream's Matt Schlicht, one of the lucky few to spot and use the new feature, described the experience via Twitter. "I'm seeing Google Voice search on google.com. Works surprisingly well but is very awkward to use in the office," he reported.

Currently, Google's Mobile Voice Search is available for handsets built on popular platform, such as Android, BlackBerry and iOS. Google's latest web browser release, Chrome 11, features HTML voice input.

If Monday's reports are accurate, Google's desktop search engine may soon sport this speak-and-search technology, too.

You can view a screenshot of the new feature here.

Comments

[bryanzth]

02:25 PM on 05/03/2011

Ah, and it will answer your searches with the voice of Majel Barrett!

No, I am not mocking this at all. Together with communicators, tablets, speaking computers, GUI computer screens, earpods, and just about everything except (dang it) transporters, we have fulfilled the predictions made as many as 100 years ago.

And Xerox, Apple, IBM, and now Google have made these predictions come to pass. Ah, but keep in mind that Microsoft has only sought to cheapen these ideas and implement them badly like the loser aliens they are. ;0)

BZ.