Does anybody know a keyboard shortcut to activate the voice search without having to click on the microphone?
Voice search enabled on Google homepage (Chrome)
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#22I noticed I finish searching by typing faster and more accurately than speaking into the mic. I understand the data collected by Google is valuable for its own use but what's the real benefit to the user?
Theoretically they use said data to make the speech search better.
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#24"Please note Voice Search is available for US English only." Damn, and there I was going to search for Crocodile Dundee quotes.
I can't go to google.com without being automatically redirected to google.co.uk. (I'm in the UK).
I can't believe people don't know about google.com/ncr, which disables country redirect
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#25Just went 0 from 4, anyone getting good results? Not ruling out a bad mic or pronunciation on my end, although I imagine because searches are short and abstract they could be pretty hard to parse.
My first test was "Look at my horse my horse is amazing" and it worked just fine even though I am not a native english speaker.
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#26Just went 0 from 4, anyone getting good results? Not ruling out a bad mic or pronunciation on my end, although I imagine because searches are short and abstract they could be pretty hard to parse.
I said, 'I cant be cool,' but it came out 'I cant b cool'. Extremely close in my opinion, and Prince would be proud. For more generic words the results came out perfect: 'wired', 'baseball', 'hacker news', and 'Philadelphia Phillies'.
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#27This is a big step – millions of people becoming more comfortable with searching for information just by speaking to their computer. Historical moment.
This technology has been around a few years. If I'm not mistakken, wasn't voice search originally implemented on the Google iPhone application? Now with the proliferation of microphones on computers, it makes sense for Google to implement this feature on the Google webpage.
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#28Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
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#29Well apart from "coca cola" it didn't get any of my search phrases right, a couple of words that seemed to be based on past search history though ....
"paulstretch" = balls "poor" = p* [presumably 'porn'?] "text to speech" = x
etc.
Just tried "pepsi" and get 'speech not recognised'. But for "pepsi cola" I get the right search ...
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#30Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
I'm ok with it. Much in the same way I don't expect to be asked if it's ok to send data to their servers every time I do a normal text search.
In what way do you think it could be abused?