Jelly Bean's Sound Search feature now available root-free on ICS

Did you know you can get a little squirt of Jelly Bean flavor in your Ice Cream Sandwich right now? It's nothing mega -- just a non-root APK for Google Sound Search, the new in-house rival to Shazam and SoundHound, courtesy of user "asdfzz" over at XDA. The widget, which is also known as "Google Ears," currently works in the familiar manner, analyzing a track via remote servers and bringing up the result within Google Play, but in the future -- according to Mobile Phones Fan -- it may go the same way as voice dictation on the Nexus 7 and do all processing locally for the sake of speed. Of course, if you're up for flashing a whole ROM, then Jelly Bean can already be had in its entirety.

Jelly Bean's Sound Search feature now available root-free on ICS originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.