In addition to offering a familiar search experience that allows you to find everything you need directly on the web, Bing now represents a reality in continuous growth.
This is demonstrated by the great interest of Microsoft in proposing new updates that are gradual and significant at the same time. Indeed, during the last few hours, the giant would be releasing a very interesting update for the Bing application.
This is aimed at mobile platforms iOS ed Android. Microsoft introduces new widget which are able to lead users directly to Bing Chat, the chatbot that integrates the services designed by OpenAI. The content of the new update was described by the company in a post on the official blog, where it reports that it has introduced two new widgets for the home screen.
Bing, the new update integrates voice support and two widgets
The widgets mentioned were previously only available for Android. These now allow you to start a conversation with a tap. A touch will therefore be enough to take users to the dedicated section of the application, now also on iOS.
All this opens up really interesting scenarios given the upcoming introduction of iOS 17, release based on interactive widgets. It could therefore come in very handy, at the moment only for developers, to have one on your home screen shortcut leading to Bing Chat.
However, attention also shifts to another new feature that the Bing app presents with the new update, namely the improvement of the voice support. Both with regards to the recognition that the synthesis, support has officially been extended to new languages. These include Greek, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Portuguese and the Europen.
According to the first reports, the performance of the button has also improved significantly input vocaleboth on Android and iOS.
Now we just have to wait for the update to be released for everyone, which will happen very quickly.