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.
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.
Getting Started with Algolia voice search
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
No download is needed to use voice search from Algolia. As the creator of an app or website, you can choose how to integrate the speech-to-text libraries. Algolia offers voice libraries for iOS and Android, as well as a widget for voice search in the browser via JavaScript.
There is very little you need to do to get your content voice-search ready. If you follow Algolia’s search optimization guide, you’ll be good to go. You may also consider adding synonyms and rules to address all of the ways people can search by voice. Dynamic synonym suggestions are another way to optimize your content to match user intent.
Not necessarily. While people may often use more natural language when they search by voice, they will just as often use keyword searches. So while you should follow Algolia’s best practices for natural language search, don’t worry about natural language search being “too advanced.” Algolia makes voice and natural language search easy.
Voice search is when people use their voice to search, regardless of the platform or what keywords they use. While many people think of smart speakers such as Alexa and Google Assistant when they hear the phrase “voice search,” people search by voice more often on their smartphones or on websites. Users look to Android and iOS apps, and websites, to see if they have implemented voice search.
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.
Voice search cuts across all types of people. Young people use it while out with their smartphones, and older people appreciate its accessibility benefits. Virtually anyone can use voice search to find items or products faster or when typing isn’t convenient.
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.