Google Lens now lets you search with your voice
Google Lens was recently updated with a short video feature that allows users to upload a video and get answers to their questions through AI overviews. However, this isn’t the only new update to the visual lookup feature. The Mountain View-based tech giant recently revealed that Google Lens would also be updated with voice search. Meanwhile, shopping for similar products using the tool will also be easier with a significant update to the way results are shown to users.
Google Lens gets new features
The tech giant explains that the voice search function is similar to the short video function, but also works with photos. Users can point their camera at anything they want to search for, press and hold the shutter button and speak their question for it to be answered by the AI.
The voice input feature is currently available worldwide on the Google app for Android and iOS. However, it currently only supports English searches, Google said.
In addition to voice search, the company is also making improvements to the shopping experience with Lens. When an image of a product is captured using the tool, the exact same product and similar products can be listed online on different e-commerce websites. But now Google is changing the results page to show more useful content about the searched product.
Google says users will now see key information about the product they searched for, including reviews, retailer pricing information and where to buy it. The Google Lens feature now uses advanced AI models and the company’s Shopping Graph to search a catalog of 45 billion products to find the right information.
Google Lens got a major upgrade with the short video-based search functionality rolled out last week. This feature allows users to long-press the shutter icon to record a video of about 20 seconds, which can then be processed by Gemini AI, which powers the AI summaries. Google said this feature will make it easier to capture an action or a moving object and ask questions about it.
