Chrome beta version of voice search and response image support

Only a week after the release of the Chrome 33 stable, Google announced Chrome beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. New features of Chrome Beta include support for responsive images, unprefixed version of the Web Audio API, and "OK Google" voice search. Of course, people most interested in, should be the latter-just a new tab in Chrome or access to Google.com, say "OK Google", the browser will automatically extract the Voice keyword and search.

This feature is already logged on to Windows, Mac, and Linux, and English users in the United States will be accessing them in the next few days. As for the support of other languages and Chrome OS, Google says it is "coming".

Of course, to enable this feature, you need to log in google.com First, click on the microphone icon, and then select "Enable OK Google" (see above).

The above is a dynamic demo of Hands-free voice search.

In Chrome beta, in addition to "OK Google" voice search, but also for developers to provide many different resolution of the image resources. The advantage is that you can save bandwidth and speed up page loading time, and end incorrect image formats.

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Finally, chrome Beta also brings the unprefixed version of the Web Audio API to allow chrome-deployed web Audio to align with the draft code. Google requires developers to switch to the unprefixed version as soon as possible, and the prefixed version is obsolete and will be removed in a future release.

The complete contents of this update are as follows:

Support for responsive images and unprefixed Web Audio;

Support "hands-free" Google Voice search;

Import supervised users on the new computer;

Some new application/extension APIs;

Many stability and performance improvements.