Our voices will always be the best communication tool we have, no matter how advanced technology and software get. After all, we’re born with the ability to communicate, and for the majority of us, speaking quickly is as natural as thinking. With the arrival of Siri on the iPhone 4s 60 years later, voice recognition technology as we know it began to gain momentum among consumers.
Naturally, the competition was not going to sit around and wait for Apple to take all the credit. In 2012, Google entered the fray with the release of Google Now for Android. And nowadays in 2021 Google voice search tool is trending with ‘OK GOOGLE’. There is many searches have been done using this feature. Both desktop and mobile searches can benefit from Google Voice Search. Users often utter a “wake” phrase, such as “OK, Google,” to tell Google to start analyzing what they say.
As it has been organized and developed by Google it has overcome with most powerful search engine around the globe. The user just has to speak what they want to search or type Google voice search feature will analyze what the user said and automatically search for what you spoke.
As we have observed this feature of Google voice search is so popular and friendly that we can see this feature on the Google search bar, on what’s the app on your keyboard, and on many other applications this service has been added. But sometimes you may find a bug while using this feature. While tapping on the Google voice button you may get the error ‘Google Voice search is not supported on your device’. Having such an error may not allow you to use this service. But you can fix such error by following the mentioned step below:
How to Fix “Google Voice Search is not supported on your device”
1. Check Phone Setting
Kindly update the Gboard application on your phone or if it is not installed, install it from the Play store.
- Tap to open your phone settings.
- Click on the option of additional settings.
- Now, you will be able to see many options such as Date and Time, Languages and Input, Regions, and many more.
- Select option Languages and Input and then click on the manage keyboard option available in it.
- Now, enable Google voice typing and also enable the Gboard typing option in the manage keyboard section. By enabling this option you will be able to see Google voice search will start working on your keyboard.
However, if you find that error again you can go back to Languages and Input and then click on the current keyboard option available above manage keyboard option and click on Google keyboard from you’re your current keyboard.
2. Check Internet Data
Google voice search probably only works using internet services, if you have a bad or limited internet connection this service will not work at all, we recommend checking your internet before using this feature if even Google voice search does not work from the above-mentioned method.
3. Microphones Issues
In the case you can check your mobile microphones, If it is not working properly or broken it will not take command given from your side and may start showing an error or even there could be permission error also which may not allow Google Voice Service to access your microphone, so you can even check your phone setting and enable the permission for microphones.
4. Outdated Google Application
As we know Google keeps on updating the applications to meet the demand of the users and make changes accordingly, there might be a chance where your Google application is not updated for a long time, so we recommend you check if there is any update in the application and if yes, then proceed to update your application and try fixing the error.
Final Words:
After working on the above-mentioned methods check visiting Google voice search feature visiting WhatsApp or any browser, open Google and click on the mike button, start browsing by speaking anything you want. Hope this method will help you to fix Google voice search that is not supported to your device error easily and quickly.
