Google may get much more chatty when you do a search from your Pixel home s

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TL;DR

• Google appears to be considering a change to how it responds to certain queries from the Pixel home screen widget.
• With both song searches and voice input, we’re able to get responses from Google that contain voice output.
• We’re also seeing a new floating button for continuing your search in AI Mode.

Google gives us a ton of different ways to look up information, and the form in which it delivers those results can vary a lot based on how we choose to interact with it — type a text search in your browser, and you get your results back as text. Use voice input for Gemini, and you get a voice response. But sometimes that doesn’t always work the way we’d expect, and today we’re checking out what could be some upcoming changes to how Google communicates with us in response to using its Pixel home screen widget.

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That search bar widget is a powerful tool, and its convenient placement means that many of us make frequent use of it. Tapping its microphone icon is a quick way to get a search started, but with version 16.50.55.ve.arm64 beta of the Google app, we’ve identified some work-in-progress changes to how it responds.




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