YouTube Adds Voice Commands on Web to Easily Search, Navigate, and Play Videos

YouTube has added a voice commands input feature that can be used to search queries or navigate through videos on the streaming platform. The voice commands can be used to look for videos on the platform, navigate through results or pages, and play content as well. As per a report, the feature also recognises natural language commands for easy operations. Last month, the video streaming platform added HDR support for live streams as well. Easy to use, the new UI feature is quite similar to the voice search feature found on Android or iOS.To use the hands-free navigation commands, tap on the microphone icon on the right of the search bar. This opens up a box on the screen that shows the text, “listening.” You need to give your audio commands here. If you were playing a video, YouTube automatically pauses it for you to give your voice commands. There is also another microphone icon at the bottom of the new screen. You can use this to temporarily disable or enable speech-to-text.Users can choose from a wide range of languages to execute the voice command. I tried searching my queries using English and Malayalam. A transcription of the queries is…
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