Waze will soon let you report incidents with your voice

Waze is testing a handy-sounding update that will fto you study postulation incidents while speaking naturally. With the caller feature, you tin pat the app’s reporting fastener and past opportunity what you see, specified as, “Looks for illustration there’s a postulation jam up ahead.”

The Google-owned driving app will past usage the Gemini AI exemplary to “understand” what you’ve said and create a report. If you make a vague report, for illustration “There’s thing connected the road,” Waze mightiness inquire follow-up questions, for illustration “Can you picture what you see?” Depending connected your reply, the app will past usage that accusation to categorize your report.

You tin presently only study incidents connected Waze by tapping done options wrong the app, which isn’t ever convenient while you’re driving. Waze will rotation retired sound reporting successful beta to “trusted testers” connected Android and iOS this week. It’s only disposable successful English for now, but Waze plans to grow it to much users and languages successful the “coming months.”

Alongside this update, Waze will besides commencement displaying schoolhouse zones connected the representation globally later this year, alerting you to thrust much safely successful these areas.