Speech recognition and voice control for Chrome
Use voice to control your Chrome browser
- Command your day: Get the latest news, weather, directions, and groceries, and more.
- Control Chrome: Browser Tabs, Bookmarks, Navigation, Page Control, take over your chrome browser by calling to your favorite Voice Assistant.
- Designed with your privacy in mind: Our unique hotword detection feature can be turned off, where "Hey Buddy" will not listen to what you’re saying until it’s being clicked. Never tracking your speech or "private" activities.
- Voice control your music and videos: Stream songs and videos through Spotify, Youtube, iTunes just by saying "Hey Buddy"
What is new in 2.1.3:
- Critical bug fixes
What is new in 2.1.2:
- Mute tabs when Hey Buddy is triggered.
What is new in 2.1.1:
- Support for "best result" (also "top result" / "first result" / "second result", etc.) queries on Google search and YouTube.
- Suggest the most recent query for easier repetition
- Fix a bug where Hey Buddy continues to react to queries after stopping
What is new in 2.1.0:
- Enable query cancellation by saying 'no' or 'cancel' at the end.
- Add 'side by side' command to align windows side by side.
- Add an option to stop listening after each query.
- Move supported commands page out to a separate web page.
What is new in 2.0.1:
- Minor optimizations
What is new in 2.0.0:
- Complete UI redesign
- Better instant feedback
- Better intent recognition
- More guidance on initial setup
- Option to enable TTS support on search results page
- Less noisy notifications
What is new in 1.1.2:
- Fix go to query
What is new in 1.1.1:
- Custom hotword support
What is new in 1.1.0:
- Stop listening after 2 seconds timeout.
What is new in 1.0.9:
- Add ability to show/hide personalized search suggestions.
- Add support for searching on site (e.g., <query> on Bing, search for <query> on Walmart, etc.)
What is new in 1.0.8:
- Show Google suggestions instead of most recent query.
- Allow deletion of Google search suggestion.
What is new in 1.0.7:
- Say 'stay open' to keep Chrome Voice Assistant active.
What is new in 1.0.6:
- Voice input mode - use voice dictation to compose email, take notes, fill out form, etc.
What is new in 1.0.5:
- Bookmark management (bookmark / remove bookmark)
- Navigation (go back / go forward)
- Page control (zoom in / zoom out / page up / page down)
Official site: https://bewisse.com/heybuddy/
Privacy policy: https://bewisse.com/heybuddy/privacy/
Source code: https://github.com/bewisse/heybuddy
Donation: https://www.paypal.me/hao1300
Latest reviews
- (2022-02-25) ivan havelka: COOOOOOLLLLLLLL
- (2022-02-21) Vít Holovka: It is good voice assistant, there are some good functions but you have to talk louder to get respond.
- (2022-02-07) Alex Marrow: didnt start right away properly
- (2022-02-05) Ishan Bhardwaj: This is the best assistant i have ever seen
- (2022-01-06) Hamilton Coelho: Não funciona
- (2021-11-29) Abhishek Choure: BEST ,,, KEEP IT UP .....NEVER STOP
- (2021-06-23) Roovaaku: I just installed hey buddy and I think it's really awesome, but I wish he had more command for music because when I say pause or play or play music it doesn't do much, I 'would like it to have more than functionality like a compatible with streaming services like Spotify and Amazon music, and also that asked to play a video on YouTube to be more natural and simple, because at the moment I have to make sentences very long and precise and even sometimes it does not launch videos, but only a search on youtube: C I would also like it to be able to have a voice and also more language like French and also the possibility of recording the sentence who activates it for who recognizes precisely the word example: jarvis he can sometimes see often having difficulty understanding personalized and non-standard words I imagine features like this might be added in the future, but it would be nice to have them soon. But for now I'm in love with this voice assistant I would have put 10 stars if it was more developed and compatible with spotify and had more features than I listed.
- (2021-06-18) TJ Huntley: My rating should be 4.5 bc this extension is awesome. It works very well too. You don't have to keep saying it 12 times for it to wake. The only thing it seems to be lacking, is the ability to personalize command words yourself (e.g. "Show me Fox News" takes you to Fox News, "I want to watch Lester Holt" takes you to NBC Nightly News, "Open my Spreadsheets" opens your personal Google Sheets you select.)
- (2021-05-27) Kristen Huber: Very very happy with this. Google Assistant doesnt work with my version of chromebook so this is a wonderful alternative. Thank you so much!
- (2021-05-05) Mr. JMAJT: This is very good extension. Thanks!
- (2021-04-28) Dude Tabby: Not bad, a few issues, but it works more ot the time. I figured out I don even have to say hey buddy to go to websites. I just say go to youtube or something and it automatically goes there without sayin "Hey buddy"
- (2021-04-27) Lorde Rouse: Very cool indeed! This isn't 100%, but it is close enough. I am really impressed. Thank you very much!
- (2021-03-15) Benjamin Avila: Quite happy with this ... It just works ! You will love it trust me ...
- (2021-02-22) ekarron: ِAfter using almost all the extensions of this nature on chrome web store, I can confidently say that this is the best one.
- (2021-02-20) Shubham Mehra: Loved it
- (2021-02-06) Disappointment: Hey Buddy works great! He is very responsive, and I wanted something just like him. But a few tips and bugs I wanted to inform you about: 1. I cannot name him something else, there isn't a option, maybe you can add a button that allows everyone to do that :) 2. I REALLY want Hey Buddy to be a background voice assistant. When I'm in a google meet, he pops up when I call him and I don't really want that (Especially when I'm presenting) 3.When I download Hey Buddy, a website with the commands come up for only 2 seconds and then another website pops up called "Bewise" so we can't exactly look at the commands. :( But overall I highly recommend Hey Buddy as your voice assistant! He is the best one I found yet!
- (2021-01-23) Haroon Haneef: I never wrote reviews for chrome web app, but this app is simply amazing. I have Windows 10 laptop, not even cortana or alexa is this perfect, I am very satisfied with this app, everyone should try this. Kudos to developers
- (2021-01-20) jeevan M: it is best voice assistant and works super in chrome ,Brave ,this extension not working in microsoft edge, (can you update this extension to make a rotating logo when we activate this ) like cortana
- (2021-01-16) rehna uroothodi: I was Nice
- (2020-12-05) Manish behra: super
- (2020-09-17) Greg Hatfield: How do you change the default search engine?
- (2020-04-14) 梁成恩: 它不支持中文,好悲伤
- (2020-03-23) Kerrington Wells: Works well for Navigating Chrome... could use some work on the voice recognition side... however for the most part get the job done.
- (2020-03-16) Константин Неизвестниов: Don't recognise speech with accent corectly. Examples: "Close tab" => "Call stop", "Kohl's stock", "gold stop", "call.", "cool.", "."
- (2020-03-15) red_propulsion_gamer: i liked it but it didn't have many good commands it would only search on google
- (2020-03-10) Gopi krishna: I'm giving 3 star just for this reason bcoz its always tries to do google search without any prefix keyword like "open" or "search for", Even when i'm saying command like Write "I am happy" in a textbox ( if i pause a little bit after "i am" it does google search on "happy" keyword in a new tab.). If you fix it i'm change the rating.
- (2020-01-26) Bhabani shankar Sahoo: good for your business
- (2020-01-22) Redshift Woratouch: I can't say Thai word.
- (2020-01-17) Vetrivel M: Great assistant, works fine but some issues like scrolling down,this command is not working and also finding a word in a page etc. Hope you fix it
- (2020-01-12) Some Guy Online: Has potential; I wanted this specifically for controlling YoutTube while I'm building things in my room. But the mic pics up the video's voice as command inputs and while I can tell the video to start playing, and it does, pausing or stop do not work.
- (2020-01-09) Saram Hassan: its great. but seems to miss the command sometimes.. we would love to see a visual feedback it will make it more efficient and userfriendly.
- (2019-12-30) Vinny Noel: Best voice assistant for Chrome!!
- (2019-12-11) Damian Hallbauer: I love this as much as I've grown to hate cortana. Thanks, nice to have found this now, after I just had to uninstall and fire her with her cheeky attitude and poor listening! if only it could control my PC more fully give a hands free operation...
- (2019-10-31) Creepy Guy: It is not Responding. Help me how to enable it. when I say Hey Buddy, It sends notification that it is ready but it does not respond even within 2 seconds Please help out
- (2019-07-31) Hr Gwea: It doesn't work on Chrome 49. You should add a minimum supported version in your manifest.
- (2019-07-09) Sidd ?: Anything say is transcribed correctly, but all it does is open a new tab with the transcription as the search. What i want is to use STT to fill text and avoid typing, but selecting any text field and starting your extension has no effect, all it does is search for it.
- (2019-06-08) Boopathi: It just super
- (2019-05-20) Fisummer D: very great extension i have ever used, loved it
- (2019-04-28) Makio Andrew: Nem se comparar com o voiceln... estava satisfeito com ele vocês fizeram alguma modificação no navegador Chome para gente não poder usar o Voiceln para usar o da google que não chegar nem perto deste que relatei a cima a do google chome voice a gente fala algo e escreve outro se tiver-se um navegador compatível com Voicein eu trocava de navegador.
- (2019-04-08) Prabhat Kumar: it isn't customizable :/. As in, i can't change the hot word nor the keyboard shortcut. hope you look after that
- (2019-03-31) E.A.M #Türkçe#: very good but dont be turkish language but no problem
- (2019-03-13) Rapha'el Ben Yisra'el: Very impressive!
- (2019-02-08) alex carr: I was wondering if you guys could make it so I could change the trigger word and make it a name. Overall, great product.
- (2019-01-18) Trying2 Understand: It was great at voice recognition, but terrible at intent recognition. If I paused speaking for even a millisecond it would place a '.' then capitalize the next word. It also had a very irritating habit of sending messages to my message center that would pop up and obscure the area that I was trying to type in. I am going to uninstall, but if you message me with fixes to those two issues, I will re-install.
- (2019-01-15) Michael Mason: I just found out about Chrome Voice Assistant today and it is simply fantastic!!! :) I was never happy with any of the Chrome voice extensions in the store and pretty much gave up. But today I went into the chrome store in hoping there was something new since it's been a while since I last had a look and that's when I came across Chrome Voice Assistant and it is by far the best voice extension for chrome or any browser on windows! Chrome Voice Assistant is a dream come true for the Chrome Browser! :) And please if you can keep it updated with new features and bug fixes!!! The developers of Chrome Voice Assistant extension should really be proud of them self's Highly recommended!!! :) Update Tue Jan.15,2019 Just got to say I am so impressed how quickly the developer of Chrome Voice Assistant has added features that I only just ask for a few days ago :) Other then some bugs with hotword detection listing to long among a few other things Chrome Voice Assistant is the best and a must have for anyone who likes using voice search! Big Thanks for the quick updates!
- (2019-01-10) rich t mason: Just uploaded this app. going to try it for a while. am looking for a voice command app that i can use to control my chromebook whilst i'm offline and listening to music. just so i can select albums, songs, artists or other features depending on the app involved. Can this do it? I'm off to find out.
- (2018-12-14) John Johnson: Works very well... Sometimes too well. I'm on my computer and I use it - - next thing I know is it is typing data from the TV. If I use for data I need to squelch the TV. But I can live with that. I am amazed at how responsive it is. And HEY BUDDY is perfect for a trigger.
- (2018-12-02) ayush: I really loved it but can you please give an option to set the time for which google voice assistant screen remains active after saying HEY BUDDY. Like in my case it stays for around 7 seconds. Suppose i am reading a novel on chrome and i am using google voice assistant for scrolling down the page then i have to say hey buddy for several times to scroll.Hope you will look into it.Thankyou
- (2018-10-25) V István: Not reacting onto most commands (tested: close tab, pin tab, zoom in, make it larger, news of Google, submit, .... Understands some things, and that is cool. Like About California opens the Wiki of California. Not understanding some basic sentences like "pin tab" (-->been tab, etc.)
- (2018-08-09) imran raja: AMAZING SAYING HEY BUDDY LOADS IT SO MANY BUT ONLY ONE DOES WHAT IT SAYS RIGHT CLICK ICON CLICK ON OPTIONS COMMANDS LIST LOADS BRILLIANT RESOURCES HARDLY TOUCHED