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Google’s New Conversational Voice Search Is Here (Kind Of)

Google’s New Conversational Voice Search Is Here (Kind Of)

By Chris Crum

At Google I/O last week, Google announced that it was bringing conversational search to the desktop. Voice search features available to mobile users are coming to the desktop via Chrome. You're supposed to be able to just talk to Google without clicking any buttons, and ask it questions, and ...

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