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Google starts to rollout new voice search UI on Android

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Last updated: 2026/01/20 at 12:18 AM
News Room Published 20 January 2026
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It’s the one part of the Android UI that I really never liked to look at and I’m guessing that many of you feel the same way. When using voice search on the Android version of the Google app, you tap the microphone icon in the app’s Search bar. Doing that used to redirect you to this page that featured an odd-looking bodyless face. Since voice search vocally responds to your query, the bodyless face appeared to move its mouth synchronized to the response you were hearing from Google.

  

In November, we told you that with Gemini taking over Google Assistant, the bodyless face was going away. I was using Gemini as my digital assistant, and for a couple of weeks, it did disappear. And while I continue to use Gemini for all of the things that I used to use Google Assistant for (answering questions, setting alarms and timers), the face returned and shows up briefly in the new UI. 

There are several ways an Android user can access voice search

The redesigned voice search UI features the Google logo centered at the top of the page with the back button on the left and the three-dot overflow icon on the right. You will tap that icon to go to Voice settings. From the latter you can enable Spoken results so that search results will be read aloud. You can also choose from four different voices to read search results to you (Cosmo, Neso, Terra, or Cassini) and change the primary language that your voice search is spoken to you in, with a large number of alternatives available. The dark theme has also been updated.

You can get Google’s voice search by tapping the microphone icon inside the Google Search widget on the home screen, from the persistent Pixel Launcher search bar at the bottom of the display on Pixel phones, by opening the Google app and tapping the microphone icon in the search bar. If enabled, you can open voice search hands-free by saying “Hey Google.” 

Look for this beta version of the Google app to view the revised voice search UI

If you are using the search bar and the microphone icon to access voice search, as soon as you press on the icon that odd bodyless face shows up with the word “Listening” on top and a four color-arc underneath the face. Under the arc is the new and larger “Search a song” lozenge. Press it and you’ll open a song search UI that asks if you want to “Play, Sing, Hum.” The top right corner, there is a shortcut to Song Search history.

The new UI is rolling out with stable version 17.1 and beta version 17.2 (beta) of the Google app on Android. It still has not yet been made widely available. The new UI appears in my Pixel 6 Pro running version 17.1 of the stable Google app and has the latest beta version of Android 16 QPR3 installed.

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