Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, finally supports the Voice Search option on the desktop site, the company has confirmed. In a tweet, folks at Bing have confirmed the arrival of voice search on the Bing desktop website. As a result, searching on Bing has now become faster than ever.
Bing gets a desktop voice search
All you need to do is use voice to ask questions and get a quick but appropriate response from Bing. Bing Voice Search option is also available on the Bing app for Android and iOS. Hence, interested mobile users can download Bing from respective app stores and experience Bing’s voice search capabilities.
Bing Voice Search is now available on https://t.co/pmPtWG7PZJ! Use voice to ask questions and get a quick audio response from Bing. pic.twitter.com/kkO3piLVm4
— Microsoft Bing Dev (@MSBing_Dev) September 21, 2020
How to enable and use Voice Search on Bing
Are you looking to experience Bing’s voice search capabilities on your desktop? In that case, all you need to do open your desktop web browser and enter the Bing website URL in your browser’s address bar.
Once you are on the Bing homepage, you will notice a microphone icon in the search bar. All you need to do is click on that microphone icon. As soon as you try to activate Bing Voice Search, you will be asked to grant your web browser permission to access your microphone.
Granting your desktop browser access to your laptop or computer’s microphone is essential. During our initial use, we found the Bing voice search a little slower than Google’s.
Before you begin with Bing Voice Search on desktop, make sure to update your web browser to the latest version. We tried Bing Voice Search on Edge and it worked great.
Hence, even if you have any other modern web browser applications such as Chrome, or Firefox you will still be able to use the voice search option on the Bing desktop website.
In related news, Bing is eventually being rebranded as Microsoft Bing.
