Chrome Voice Actions Versions Save

A Chrome extension that brings Voice Actions to Google Chrome. The extension is free, but please consider supporting development at https://ko-fi.com/ZMYaro or https://patreon.com/ZMYaro.

v5.1

10 months ago
  • “OK Chrome” hotword (premium feature)
  • Adds new search engine options
  • Pop-up now closes when browser speech recognition hears too much sound it can't identify as speech
  • Auto-closes the permission prompt page after permission is granted
  • Links on standalone and options pages have default active color in dark theme
  • Standalone pages use the system font on Windows instead of Arial

v5.0

11 months ago
  • Overhauls command handler to be more easily maintainable and extendable
  • Adds ability to do speech recognition in the pop-up, without a separate speech recognition tab, if supported
  • Cleans up various other code behind the scenes
  • Adds option to wait 0 seconds before performing an action
  • Adds up-to-date Chrome toolbar icon resolutions
  • Adds option for white toolbar microphone icon
  • Adds options for minimalist toolbar microphone icons
  • Adds commands to open Chrome settings, history, and help
  • Adds “What can I say?” and other commands to open Voice Actions help/settings
  • Adds new search engine options
  • Marks Google Play Music as deprecated (R.I.P. ☹)
  • Applies standalone options page section styles to embedded options page
  • Fixes options page keyboard shortcut section when no shortcut is set
  • Closes orphaned speech recognition tabs the next time the pop-up is opened

v4.6

4 years ago
  • Adds warning when no microphone is detected
  • Adds warning when microphone access has been denied
  • Adds link to Chrome permission settings page from permission prompt page and from other pages when microphone access has been denied
  • Keyboard shortcut to activate Voice Actions is set to Alt+V by default
    • Keyboard shortcut is now also mentioned in extension options
  • Adds new search engine options
    • Also deprecates some that have gone defunct
    • Also updates some that have changed URLs
    • Also renames some that have changed names
  • Changes default music search app to Spotify (as much as I still like Google Music)
  • Updates extension pages to follow system dark theme preference
  • Updates pop-up to better follow Material Design guidelines
  • Updates icons to new Material Design ones
  • Updates icons to SVGs
  • Adds embedded options page (opens on chrome://extensions instead of its own tab)
  • Adds links to Voice Actions Facebook and Twitter pages, removes Google+ (R.I.P. ☹)
  • Fixes pop-up load indicator flickering

v4.5

10 years ago

v4.4

10 years ago

v4.3.2

10 years ago

v4.3.1

10 years ago

Specifically, Dailymotion, Hulu, Metacafe, Netflix, Twitch, and Vimeo were added.

v4.3

10 years ago

v4.2

10 years ago

Adds support for “switch to ~” command, which searches within your open tabs Adds support for “close this tab” command (and variants) Recognizes “pics of ~” as an image search query Adds higher resolution browser action icon for high-density displays

v3.2

10 years ago