Google is testing a voice-controlled “Talk to Chrome” AI assistant on Chrome

Google is testing a new voice-controlled AI assistant inside Chrome that users can directly talk to. The codename is “Talk to Chrome,” and the feature lets the assistant see what’s on your screen, scroll pages, switch or open tabs, translate content, and process images when you give spoken commands.

Users will also be able to decide whether the assistant’s widget stays visible on screen.

Information about this feature was shared by @Leopeva64 on X, and the post also includes a video demo of Talk to Chrome in action. The feature was discovered in what appears to be a Chrome Canary build.

The assistant appears as a widget. You can choose the visibility as well. A red circular control lets you speak, and a menu offers toggles for Input/Output captions, which let spoken words appear as text. There’s also a “Persona” option and a “Remembered Notes” button.

Opening “Remembered Notes” takes you to a simple page where you can add key-value pairs. For example, “favorite_color” can be set to “purple.” These preferences are saved so that the AI can recall them later.

The interface appears clearly unfinished since some areas show placeholder text instead of the proper labels.

Furthermore, Google is also preparing a similar feature for Chrome on Android. In a Chrome Canary setting, users can already choose whether the browser shares browsing data with on-device intelligence features.

Despite looking for the flag on the latest version of Chrome Canary, I was not able to find anything resembling this feature on macOS. I’m assuming Chrome is rolling out the test in batches, or it’s Windows-only for now. It’s still under active development and not ready for the stable channel. It’ll take a while before the public gets to use it.

In other Chrome news, the browser is getting a minor but serious update that affects images. More on that here. Additionally, there’s a new test for the Ask Gemini button position, along with a new dark gradient interface. We covered that here.

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