Compare Chrome extensions: Pia vs Click by Voice

Stats Pia Pia Click by Voice Click by Voice
User count 223 1,000+
Average rating 3.77 3.78
Rating count 13 9
Last updated 2014-03-07 2021-11-26
Size 8.61M 138.24K
Version 1.1 0.23.4
Short description
Pia - Your smart, personal assistant This Chrome browser extension provides support for activating links and other HTML elements using voice commands.
Full summary

Pia is your voice-controlled personal assistant for the web.

Pia can be toggled on and off with the click of a button or a quick keyboard shortcut (Alt + P). Launch Pia, press the spacebar, and off you go!

#Features:

  • Search Google, Wikipedia, IMDB and more using simple voice commands: "Search for Kittens" "Search Wikipedia for Ponzi Scheme" "Search IMDB for Titanic" "Search Wolfram for the Integral of x squared"

  • Send Emails to Friends: "Email nick@gmail.com"

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Click by Voice numbers each clickable or focusable item at all times and allows activating them via keyboard. For example, to open a link numbered 13 in a new window, you could manually hit control shift space then type "13:w" into the resulting pop-up then hit enter. In practice, a voice command like "window pick 1 3" would be used to type these keys.

WARNING: this extension by itself provides no voice functionality; procurement of the needed voice commands is the user's responsibility. One recommended means of doing this is to use Vocola (http://vocola.net/).

Supported functionality includes focusing input elements, clicking elements, opening links in the same tab/a new (focused) tab/a new window, and removing the keyboard focus from the current element. For how to use Click by Voice, see https://github.com/mdbridge/click-by-voice/blob/master/README.md. CbV provides functionality similar to that of Firefox's mouseless browsing extension for voice control.