Verbalizer: Making Google Voice Search For Desktop Much More Fun

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Google announced that they were releasing Voice Search for the Desktop earlier in the month, and while that is a nice option to have available, it comes without all that much to really get excited about. Sure, it can help when it comes to things like longer searches or when your hands may be otherwise occupied, but how about making it fun.

Enter Breakfast, the company behind other such other goodies such as Instaprint (the photo booth for Instagram) and the Office Music Democratizer. And well, it looks like they have come forward with a bit of magic for Google Voice Search on the Desktop.

The new little toy is called the Verbalizer and it comes in the form of an open source dev board shaped like a microphone. And simply put, the crew over at Breakfast went forward because they “couldn’t help thinking that there was even more fun to be had with talking to a computer.”

And well, after checking out the YouTube video they posted showing off some of what can be done, there is really not much else to say aside from agree — it does look like fun. So much so that I almost want one for myself.

That said, the Verbalizer is designed to be Arduino-compatible and completely open source. Otherwise, the Verbalizer will connect with your computer over Bluetooth out-of-the-box and then when touched it will open Google.com and active the Voice Search. Of course, going back to that video (which you can see below), that is just the start of what you can do with the Verbalizer.

For those of you who are thinking you cannot live without one, you may want to hit the ‘source’ link below the video because there will be a “limited number” of these given away for free beginning on July 1st. And while it may take some time to get one in hand, that time can be well served by trying to device on a creative use.