Voice Search by Algolia

Voice search API for apps, mobile sites, and voice assistants

Algolia gives users relevant voice search results with contextual understanding capabilities, NLP, natural-language understanding, and AI tools.

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Getting Started with Algolia voice search

  • 1. Load your data to our server

    We'll have our search engine index it, host it, and make it available anywhere at unparalleled speeds.

  • 2. Tell us what's important to you

    Which textual content do you most value for voice search? Which metrics determine your popular content? With our voice search platform, you control your ranking formula.

  • 3. Add input to your apps and websites

    Use our client libraries to take advantage of our native-speech-to-text capabilities, or integrate your own through a third party.

  • 4. Optimize your results over time

    Use personalization, dynamic reranking, and natural-language learning to apply AI learning to your users' voice searches and continually improve voice search results.

Voice search for multiple platforms

Voice search API for voice assistants and mobile devices.
  • Smart voice assistants

    If your company has an Amazon Alexa skill or Google Assistant action, our voice search capabilities can improve them. Let your users search by voice and get immediate, accurate results from our advanced voice search functionality.

  • Mobile devices

    More than half of voice searchers are speaking voice commands on their mobile devices every day, looking for information about events on social media, or doing local searches. Twenty percent of all searches being done on mobile devices are by voice, so it pays to optimize for this type of search. We provide voice search for both mobile apps and mobile websites. 


Voice search technologies

Use voice functionality to give employees the information they’re requesting, or to help your customers find details they need.

Open source iOS and Android speech-to-text libraries for mobile apps and websites.Enhance search experience by combining textual relevance and business metrics with NLP & NLU.NLP functionality that is familiar with dozens of languages internationally.Personalized and AI-powered search functionality.
Open source iOS and Android speech-to-text libraries for mobile apps and websites.

Super speech-to-text libraries

We provide free open-source libraries that you can take advantage of when adding voice search technology to your mobile apps and mobile websites. We supply libraries for iOS voice search and Android voice search, and for use in mobile browsers.

Enhance search experience by combining textual relevance and business metrics with NLP & NLU.

Excellent textual relevance

Our search engine optimization technology combines textual relevance and your business metrics with our natural-language processing and natural-language understanding to supply unparalleled voice search experiences.

NLP functionality that is familiar with dozens of languages internationally.

Support for many languages

Our natural-language processing functionality works across dozens of languages internationally, and our infrastructure is distributed, so we can support your voice searchers regardless of where they’re located.

Personalized and AI-powered search functionality.

First-rate personalization

When people speak voice commands, they expect to be understood as if they're talking to a human. That’s why we offer personalized AI-powered functionality. We learn your users’ preferences and tailor the results to their interests.

Nic Chikhani,Vice President of Product

Weight Watcher

Algolia helps us to unlock the potential for how voice search can enrich our members’ lives. Its technology allows us to process users’ complex queries, providing the right results the first time.

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Voice search FAQs

  • People are searching by voice more and more. While voice search was not something many people did five years ago, with the improvement of speech recognition on iOS, Android, and the web, voice search has taken off on all of these platforms. The trends all point to the same thing: if businesses provide a voice input option on the search bar in their apps and on websites, people will take advantage of it.

  • The best voice search technology gives users and customers the ability to search by voice with natural language or keyword queries. This opens up more interactive opportunities when people are on the go, taking public transportation, or simply have their hands full. To best serve these types of voice searches, it is important to have technology that can understand what people are saying and personalize the results for them.

  • Not only does voice search facilitate accessibility, it can be more convenient than typing, especially on platforms such as mobile or smart television, where typing can be error prone or a hassle.