Search By Voice

Search By Voice is a basic tool that uses online speech recognition to help you browse the Internet using your voice only, with no keyboard involved. It offers support for ten browsers and allows for searches based on clipboard text, making it a flexible tool, in spite of its simplicity.

Having to log in for a simple app like this seems a bit unnecessary, yet it is a thing. However, make sure you pay close attention to the credentials. The app has an unconventional login routine. Creating an account seems to be possible one time on one machine. If you forget the credentials, the app will tell you that you've already had an account, and won't let you make another. This looks like a breaking deal, so be careful.

Also, the OS speech recognition function must be turned on for Search By Voice to work.

The interface is far from good-looking, but it works. When you launch the app for the first time, the transparent mode will be on, pushing you to believe something is wrong, when it's not.

Selecting a browser would be the first step with Search By Voice. Brave, Chrome, Dragon, Epic, Edge, Firefox, Flash Peak, Opera, Safari, and Vivaldi are the browsers one can use. Plug in a microphone and start speaking. Words and phrases are both acceptable, but your diction must be fairly clean, and speaking fast is not advised.

All words or phrases can be found in the app's history and reused at will. If you have trouble with your mic, open the Send combo menu and use the clipboard to paste text in the search box.

Search By Voice is not the fanciest speech-to-text tool out there, but its efficiency cannot be argued with. Once you figure out how the account step works and get used to the UI mechanics, you'll quickly become more and more conformable with this particular program.