Google Chrome Desktop Now With Okay Google Voice Detection

May 23, 2014 - 7:46 am 3 — by
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Google Easter Egg: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, RightGoogle announced yesterday on Google+ that Chrome, Google's popular browser, now supports the ability to say "Okay Google" to activate voice search by default from the Google search page.

You may need to go to your preferences, click on advanced settings and check off "Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search."

Here is how it looks as an animated GIF:

Google Chrome Desktop Now With Okay Google Voice Detection

Have you enabled it if you use Chrome?

Forum discussion at Google+.

 

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