Bing has released a new Chat widget for iOS, expanded voice language support, and improved mobile voice performance. The Bing team encourages users to keep providing feedback.
Bing Preview Release Notes: Bing Chat iOS Widget and More
The Bing Search Blog has released the latest Bing Preview Release Notes, highlighting new features and responding to user feedback. This week, they’ve launched a Bing Chat iOS widget, expanded voice language support, and improved performance of the voice input button on the mobile app for iOS and Android.
Bing Chat iOS Widget
The Bing Chat iOS widget allows users to initiate chat from their Home screen. Instructions for how to add widgets to your Home screen can be found here.
Expanded Voice Language Support
The Bing team has released text-to-speech support for more languages, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Gujrati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Marathi, Norsk Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Urdu. As they said, “Svo mörg tungumál!”
Mobile Voice Performance Improvements
The Bing team has improved the performance of the voice input button on the Bing mobile app for iOS and Android. According to the Release Notes, it should now indicate it’s listening instantly once you tap it.
Keep your feedback coming! – The Bing Team
The Bing team is always looking for feedback and suggestions from users. If you have any thoughts or ideas, make sure to let them know!
The Bing Preview Release Notes are a great way to stay up to date on the latest features and improvements. Be sure to check them out and see what’s new with Bing.
Key points from the article:
- New Bing Chat widget for iOS
- Expanded voice language support for Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Gujrati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Marathi, Norsk Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Urdu
- Improved performance of voice input button on Bing mobile app for iOS and Android
- Bing team encourages users to keep providing feedback
- Previously released features and improvements to voice and text-to-speech language support
From the Bing Blogs