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New Chrome Beta includes hands free voice search

New Chrome Beta includes hands free voice search
Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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The latest Chrome Beta has hands free voice search, activated by saying ‘OK Google…’ It is available in US English now, and will be brought to other languages soon.

To enable the feature, you first need to click the small microphone symbol in the search bar, and click ‘Enable OK Google‘. Then, you just have to say ‘OK Google’ to activate voice search, and say what you are looking for. The official Chrome development blog explains how you can ask questions like ‘Ok Google, how many ounces are in a cup?’ or even create a Google Now reminder with ‘OK Google, remind me to pick up dessert at 6pm tonight.’

This means you can search in Chrome while doing the washing up or cooking, without having to clean your hands, or get your keyboard wet.

The Chrome beta also updates the ‘Supervised User‘ feature introduced last October. This feature lets you add family members and others to Chrome in a ‘managed environment’, where each user has certain permissions to control what they can see and do on the web. In the new beta, you can import any user to Chrome on any device, and their permissions will be synced.

Download Google Chrome Beta for Windows, Mac and Android.

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