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Plugin info

Total downloads: 17,635
Active installs: 700
Total reviews: 10
Average rating: 3.8
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 5 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 5/16/2025 (229 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/28/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 229 days ago • 10 reviews

42/100

Is Voice Search abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 229 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

Ratings

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Developers

Pascal Birchler (Owner)4Pascal Birchler10

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Italian15,565Spanish (Chile)8,024Chinese (Taiwan)6,927

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Description

Allows visitors to search the site using their voice. Currently only supported by Chrome on both desktop and mobile. See this technical reference for more details.

See this blog post for further information about the plugin.

Installation

Manual Installation

  1. Upload the entire /voice-search directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate Voice Search through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Visit your website and start searching using your voice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no microphone button beneath the search form?

There could be many reasons for this:

  • You’e not using Google Chrome (check out the browser support here)
  • Your theme doesn’t use the get_search_form() function properly. The plugin relies on the default search form markup
  • Your theme does some CSS things that prevents the microphone button from being displayed.

Does this plugin still allow users to type or does it entirely replace typing with voice search?

No, users are still able to type in the search box whatever they want. Voice search is just a nice addition.

How does it integrate with other search-enhancing plugins such as Relevanssi?

In my tests there weren’t any problems with other plugins like Relevanssi.

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Screenshots

  1. The microphone button added to the search form by the plugin.

    The microphone button added to the search form by the plugin.

Changelog

1.4.2

  • Just re-tagged 1.4.1

1.4.1

  • Improve compatibility with certain search forms.

1.4.0

  • The search form now auto-submits after finishing speaking.

1.3.1

  • Removed some unwanted console messages.

1.3.0

  • Updated for WordPress 5.7 compatibility

1.2.1

  • Less patience for quicker feedback after speech input
  • Pressing enter now submits the form instead of triggering the microphone button

1.2.0

  • Improve compatibility with themes that initially hide the search forms
  • Update browser support info in the readme

1.1.0

  • Complete rewrite of the plugin
  • Improved theme compatibility

1.0.1

  • Improvement: Better theme compatibility

1.0.0

  • Initial release
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