Voice Search is a feature that allows users to search for products on your website using only their voice, without having to type anything.
This allows customers to find results more easily, especially those who are unsure of the correct spelling. In addition, the purchase process becomes much faster, more assertive and convenient, providing a better user experience.
How Does Voice Search Work?
This is possible thanks to speech recognition artificial intelligence, which is able to identify phonemes, words and phrases pronounced verbally and can help you drive more traffic to your site.
This feature is available for all layers on mobile, but only for the fullscreen layer on desktop devices.
How to Activate Voice Search
- To activate it, go to your Admin Panel > Search > Layer Settings
- Choose the Fullscreen Layer if you want to enable it on desktop, or any other layer to enable it on mobile > click on "Configuration"
- Scroll down to "Complements" > check the Desktop and/or Mobile box to enable Voice Search, and save the changes.
![Enable voice search](/images/voice-search-navigation.gif)
Mobile View
If you go to your mobile device and click on the search bar, you will see a "microphone" icon. Click on it, and it will turn red indicating that you can speak.
![click on the mic](/images/voice-search-4.gif)
For iOS this feature only works in Safari.
Desktop View
This is how Voice Search looks like on desktop devices.
![click on the mic](/images/voice-search-3.gif)