You can now use Google Assistant for voice search in Google Chrome on Android, not a moment too soon. The move saves Chrome users from the lackluster speech recognition you had to deal with before.
Google Assistant is more convenient, integrating your in-app Chrome searches into the broader cross-app functionality of the assistant. Google Assistant’s accuracy is also better. It can recognize multiple languages by default, so multilingual users no longer have to laboriously switch their default system language in Android settings to search the internet in another language.
Chrome also supports the new Google Assistant redesign, which is now a full screen interface with flashing 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 Chrome Google Assistant voice command on all devices, it just looks different depending on the user interface your phone is using.
Despite its advantages, Google Assistant voice search is not a standard feature in Chrome. You must activate the experimental feature by enabling a Chrome flag, but it is available on all Android devices that support Chrome 87 or higher. It’s possible that Google will enable Chrome’s Google Assistant by default in a later update, but you can enable it manually now as follows:
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- Open Chrome on your Android device and create a new browser tab.
- Go to
chrome://flags#omnibox-assistant-voice-search - Tap the drop-down menu under Omnibox Assistant Voice Search.
- Select “Enabled.”
- Crane “Restart” when prompted to save the changes and restart Chrome.
To use the new voice search, tap the microphone icon in Chrome’s omnibox bar to launch Google Assistant. Ask your question or speak your search criteria out loud; The Google Assistant will answer your question with your voice and will open a new Chrome tab with relevant Google search results.
[Android Police]