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Give commands to Opera using your voice (Video)

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 Published October 9th, 2007 4:51 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

Did you know that you could talk to the Opera browser? Well, you can!

Opera has a cool feature where it allows you to say commands and tell Opera to do things. For example, if you say ‘Opera Go Back’, Opera will go back to the previous page in your browsing history. Here is the complete list of commands.

Watch the video below from PC Mechanic that explains Opera Voice. It’s pretty cool.

Note: For those of you who can’t play the video below, try watching it here.

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  1. 1 Steffen Oct 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    It says the video is removed :(

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Oct 9th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    The video works well here. Tested in Opera and Firefox.

  3. 3 breun Oct 9th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Too bad it only works on Windows 2000/XP.

  4. 4 thalon Oct 9th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    the video works fine on opera 9.23 and ie 7 but in opera 9.5 you can only see this message: “The video has been removed by the content owner”

  5. 5 Daniel Goldman Oct 9th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Works well in Opera 9.5 too.

    Watch the video here

  6. 6 Nafcom Oct 9th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    Doesn’t work for me either.
    Seems to be some problem connected to Opera 9.5 on some computers.

  7. 7 BAMAToNE Oct 9th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    I’m running the latest build of 9.5 and I see the same message as others: “The video has been removed by the content owner.”

  8. 8 Andrew D Oct 9th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Yeah I get the video removed by owner thing running the latest 9.5 too.

  9. 9 Phlexonance Oct 10th, 2007 at 12:18 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    I see the video, but voice recognition doesn’t work here. No matter what I say, Opera always responds with “I don’t understand”

  10. 10 / Oct 10th, 2007 at 3:32 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    Doesn’t Work with Vista

  11. 11 Øyvind Ø Oct 10th, 2007 at 3:42 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Since it only breaks in 9.5 it sounds like an allowScriptAccess problem?!? They also uploaded the video to YouTube. Maybe embed that one instead would be a better idea?

    - ØØ -

  12. 12 wupperbayer Oct 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am
    using Opera Opera 9.30 on Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii

    Nice, but as this feature was first introduced in some early 8.00 preview build (or was it 7.60? I don’t know exactly…) there was a cool feature to change the start command from “Opera” to “HAL”. I wish this was possible with Opera 9, too ;)

  13. 13 Werwolf Oct 10th, 2007 at 11:15 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Wupperbayer, it is still possible. At the same place as ever.

    preferences > advanced > voice > Edit

  14. 14 Lawmune Oct 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    That “HAL” (sub)feature is funny. I didn’t know about that one.

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