You can now use the Google Voice Search Assistant in Google Chrome on Android, and soon. The change saves Chrome users from the poor speech recognition you were previously forced to deal with.
Google Assistant is more convenient and integrates your Chrome searches in the app with the broader cross-app functionality of the wizard. Google Assistant accuracy is also better. It can recognize multiple languages by default, so multilingual users no longer need to tediously switch the system’s default language in Android settings to search the web in a different language.
Chrome also supports the new Google Assistant design, which is now a full-screen interface with a bright, glowing light, instead of a small window in the bottom third of the screen. However, the new Google Assistant interface is not a requirement; you can enable Google Assistant Chrome voice search on all devices, it will look different depending on the UI your phone uses.
Despite its advantages, Google Assistant voice search is not a standard feature in Chrome. You need to enable the experimental feature by enabling a Chrome flag, but it is available on all Android devices using Chrome 87 or higher. It is possible for Google to enable Google Chrome Assistant by default in a later update, but here’s how to enable it manually for now:
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- Open Chrome on your Android device and create a new browser tab.
- Go to
chrome://flags#omnibox-assistant-voice-search - Touch the Omnibox Assistant Voice Search drop-down menu.
- Select “Activated.”
- Touch “Relaunch” when asked to save changes and restart Chrome.
To use the new voice search, touch the microphone icon on Chrome’s Omnibox bar to launch the Google Assistant. Ask your question or speak your search criteria aloud; The Google Assistant will answer your question by voice and open a new Chrome tab with relevant Google search results.
[Android Police]