Microsoft Edge Browser Is Getting Voice Typing Integration And More

Voice Search is slowly becoming an crucial part of Windows 10 and its business. It is expected that Microsoft will bring this voice search feature to the Microsoft Edge. This feature appears as a new "voice search" option in Edge’s context menu. When the user open the context menu, the option appears on the home page, new tab page, Bing and on each address bar. At present, voice search is rolling out to Microsoft Edge users in the Canary channel only and it will be released to everyone later this year.

It is quite straightforward. Tapping the option opens Windows dictation that users can close by clicking anywhere on the screen or by using ESC keyboard shortcut. The Windows dictation screen with “Initializing� appears first and is followed by a "Listening…" message once the audio is found by Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. Windows sends the query to Edge and Bing search results appear after its completion. The voice search option cannot be removed from the context menu because Microsoft currently does not allow users to customize the menu.

Block auto-playing video

Microsoft Edge is also adding a new feature that will automatically block auto-playing video contents. These auto-playing videos normally consume more data and battery, and the setting to automatically disable auto-playing video is a very welcome improvement.

Download Manager

A new download manager appears, which can be accessed from the toolbar. Using the new download manager, users can start, pause, resume and stop downloads directly from the toolbar.

History sync feature

Microsoft is finally rolling out the tab and history sync feature to users of the non-experimental stable version of the Edge browser.

As of now, the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser has synchronized passwords and bookmarks, and also allowed open websites to be sent from a mobile device to a computer. However, the new Microsoft Edge lacked features as familiar to Chrome users as syncing history and tabs. Its is expected the testing the synchronization of history and tabs in the beta version of the browser.