Prestashop Voice Search & Typing by Knowband: Add Power of Voice Recognition to your Site

Though it is a late acknowledgment by leading research and development companies, gadgets and eCommerce websites have already started gaining popularity with the integration of live voice feature to facilitate user convenience and accessibility to store products and services. Just like personalized hat bots, online brands are now incorporating voice-based speech and recognition on their store. Voice-based searches are now most commonly used on phones and tablets.

Majority of young people are giving voice instructions via Siri, Alaska, Alexa, and other voice recognition based gadgets very boastfully. They are productively using voice search to start phone calls, to search something, to set alarms, to play music, get directions while driving and for accessing other basic functionalities. So why not to use voice search for building user engagement on eCommerce websites.

As voice-based searching is easy and fascinating to use, more and more people are getting used to it for browsing online stores. Moreover, considering the tremendous growth and outcomes in the voice search by people, Google has now started to develop voice searching algorithms helpful in Search Engine Optimization as well.

Knowband's Voice Search and Typing module also works similar and simpler. This Prestashop Voice Command module has been designed for websites developed in Prestashop. In this, voice command given by the user via microphone is first fetched and then recognized by the voice recognition system. The recognized speech is then converted into text-based queries used in searching and form filling.

Considering the overall benefits of voice searching and typing, Knowband has come up with a feature rich and configurable Prestashop Voice Search Addon whose basic functionalities have been discussed below.

1. Optimization

Voice-based searching plays a major impact on website optimization. By adding a voice search feature on the search bar of the site and to different form fields, you can ease customers while browsing relevant content on the store. This voice searching feature can be enabled on the search bar of the website. Admin can even allow the voice focus feature which starts capturing customer speech without pressing the microphone button. To facilitate voice-based form fields, you can enable voice typing on selected fields of forms pages at your site.

2. Multi-languages Support

When people are speaking and not typing, they can say words in any language to make your website ready for multiple languages. Multi-lingual support of Prestashop Voice Recognition System helps to cover a large base of customers.

3. Content rebuilding

Until now, there has been less attention paid to the voice-based optimization and so it was not much into existence. The content created and marketed was based on the traditional method of getting the keywords. Now, with the voice-based approach, the site content has to be reworked. Recreated content has a higher chances of ranking in Google index.

Store merchants who realized and saw the benefits of voice search have advanced their stores with the integration of voice search feature for user convenience. Your business can be big scaled or small scaled, but you can surely reap tremendous benefits once you optimize your site for voice search and typing.

Android developer and technical content writer at Knowband. Knowband is a leading eCommerce plugin development and marketing firm. Its Mobile app builder allows the store admins to upgrade their store into mobile applications.