Voicetotext: The future of search?

You’re driving, so you can’t use your phone. But you really need to know when the next Marvel movie is coming out. What do you (and 52% of people) do? You use voice search! Voice search, or voice-to-text search is supposedly the next big thing. Let’s find out if that’s true, and if it’s good or bad news.

It’s in the name: instead of using a keyboard to search online, you use your voice. But this isn’t possible without a program or handy search assistant like Google or Alexa. They convert your voice into text, then use that prompt to fulfill your request. A voice search could sound like this: “Hey Google, how many people live in Wijchen?” 

(The answer is 40,951 as of 2019).

Let’s look at some numbers. A study by Uberall found that 21% of people were using voice search on a weekly basis. A HubSpot survey found that 74% of people had used voice search within the last month. And last but not least: almost 50% of people are

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