Google Search app for Android gets quick voice commands for camera

Google is rolling out AN update for its Google Search app for mechanical man, adding voice commands for actions like clicking pictures or taking videos. These commands may be activated by locution ‘Ok Google’.

With the most recent update, mechanical man device users can got to faucet the mike icon on the Search app, or say ‘Ok Google’ on the house screen, and then, be able to launch the default camera app with voice commands like ‘take a picture’ for launching the camera app in private mode, and ‘record a video’ for gap the app in video mode. The fascinating bit is that users currently don’t got to bit the phone for launching the camera app.

Google proclaimed the new update on its Google+ page and aforementioned, “Now with the Google Search App on mechanical man, you'll be able to simply faucet the mike or say “Ok Google,” then “take a photo” or “take a video.” Google can launch your camera app within the most well-liked mode.”

Notably, the Google Search update has not reached Play Store Republic of India nevertheless and also the listing is showing fourteen March 2014 because the last update for the app.

The Google Search update announcement on Google+ has received mixed reactions from users. one among the users named Fahad Kaysar wrote “Or I will simply open the camera app from my home screen or lock screen that's quicker than telling Gnow [Google Now] to try to to therefore.”

Another commenter aforementioned, “I guess this might be handy to talk to your Wear device: “record a video”, that remotely launches the camera app in video mode on your phone, in order that it’s prepared by the time you’ve force it out of your pocket.”

The new Google Search update yet again taken off a privacy and security discussion, because the feature, that if enabled in AN mechanical man device, passively listens to the user in the slightest degree times till the user says ‘Ok Google’.

It’s price declaring that Google had initial launched voice search on desktop via Chrome in 2011 and later the feature ‘Ok Google’ feature debuted on Moto X smartphone in 2013.

Earlier in Gregorian calendar month Google free the Google currently Launcher, seen originally on the Google Nexus five, as a standalone app on the Play Store. The Google currently Launcher brings the ‘OK Google’ feature to Nexus and GPE devices that permit users to only say the command once on the house screen to launch the Google currently assistant and do a voice search, send a text, get directions or maybe play a song.