Bug 25625

Summary: Google Assistant/Voice command
Product: Koha Reporter: Viral <asjolaviral>
Component: OPACAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low    
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Viral 2020-05-31 06:49:15 UTC
In OPAC serach interface, is it possible to provide search input using Google Assistant/Voice command? It will going to help lot in regional language searching.
Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2020-05-31 14:44:52 UTC
In what way does Google Assistant/Voice command work with other web sites but not with Koha? I'm having trouble understanding the context of this request.
Comment 2 Viral 2020-06-01 01:55:56 UTC
Thanks for your comment. Usually, we give input into OPAC for searching items, if we can automate the search input through voice command it will help a lot. Means, user do not need to type the book details. Additionally, if Google Assistant has configured properly, it will work to search Multilingual books. 

Google Assistant does provide regional language support and at present Google Assistant is available in English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese and more languages are coming soon.

Now hypothetically, if we have books details in Indonesian language(bahasa Indonesia) and library staff catalogued the books into bahasa Indonesia with UTF font, then by taking input from Google Assistant we can generate the searching string in bahasa Indonesia. It will be very much helpful to the people who are having less typing skills for Non-English language. It may also going to help visually challenged users.

Looking into Koha, it gives UTF font support for all the languages, so my idea is if we can take search input from Google Assistant and insert it into OPAC search box as string and then make a search it may get work out.