"Anna" a Free Voice Assistant for Google Chrome


Now a days the people are expecting the things to be happen at their finger tips. Voice assistants to the electronic devices are making the work to be complete fast. Siri for iOS, Cortana for Microsoft are the intelligent voice assistants which are helping the users to operate their devices.



Google Chrome is one of the desktop and mobile applications used by most of the people in the world. To make this use handy, there is third party voice assistant for Google Chrome in the Chrome Web store. “Anna assistant” is a free extension for Google Chrome,works as a personal assistant we just need to be added to the Google Chrome browser.

Once added to the Browser, it will ask you to click “Allow” to use the microphone. Then we can see the following icon on the address bar of Google Chrome. 


icon of a "Anna assistant"

Once if we click on that icon, by default it will be in deactivated mode. So just click on the button it is showing in the picture to activate.

click the button to Activate or Deactivate the "Anna"

Once it activate we can give the voice commands to “Anna” by saying the “Hey”. That means all voice commands should be prefixed with the word “Hey”. For example if you want to open Facebook, just say “Hey, open Facebook”.  If you want to know the directions from Delhi to Bangalore, just say “Hey, How to go from Delhi to Bangalore”. That means every voice command should start with the word “Hey”, then only the “Anna” can able to recognize the commands.


Things can do by the “Anna”:

Small Talk:  Ask things about “Anna”
Watch YouTube Videos:  It can play YouTube videos
Maps: Shows the maps and helps in navigation
Open websites:  It can open any website if you ask.
Tweet:  We can Tweet on our twitter.
Motivate:  Motivates with quotes.
Mail:  We can write mails.
Places:  We can search about places.
Search Optimization:  We can search the things with the voice commands.
Weather:  We can know the weather at any place.
Close Tabs:  We can close the chrome tabs.

We can add this extension freely from the Google Chrome webstore. “Anna Assistant” is developed by an India-based company. So it can able to recognize the Indian accent easily unlike Siri and Cortana.



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