Voice
Your recipes. Your voice.
Find, save, organise and cook — all by voice. Turn on Voice in your Profile, tap the mic (or say "Hey Recipe") and talk to Recipe Filer the way you'd talk to a friend in the kitchen.
Recipe Filer lets you search recipes, ask what cooking terms mean, copy recipes into cookbooks, send ingredients to your shopping list, hear nutrition, find recipes for your leftovers, plan meals and cook hands-free, all by voice.
How to use voice on Recipe Filer
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Turn voice on
Go to Profile → Voice search and switch it on. Optionally enable the "Hey Recipe" wake word.
- 2
Tap the mic
Tap the orange microphone in the corner of any page. A green ring means it's listening; a red dot means it's paused.
- 3
Say what you want
Speak naturally — "find me a quick chicken dinner", "what does fold mean?", "add this to my meal plan for Thursday".
- 4
Pick, filter or save
Say a number to open a result, "only mine" or "quick ones" to narrow it down, or "save these as my weeknight list".
Search every recipe
Voice search looks through your private recipes, cookbooks shared with you, the public directory and historical recipes at once, reads out the top five and opens the results.
- Find me a healthy chicken stir fry
- Show me all the vegan recipes
- Italian recipes
- Give me some quick and easy dinner ideas
- I fancy a curry
- more / back / number 2
Narrow the results
Combine filters out loud on any results page — or tap the same chips.
- Only mine
- Only shared with me
- Only public / only historical
- Quick ones
- Under 45 minutes
- Easy ones
- Show everything
Build cookbooks
Copy recipes into any cookbook by name, or turn a whole set of results into a new private cookbook. Originals are never moved.
- Copy this recipe to my Family Favourites cookbook
- Add number 3 to my Sunday Dinners cookbook
- Add 2, 4 and 5 to Sunday Dinners
- Save these as my vegan list
Hear the nutrition
Ask about calories or macros on any recipe and hear the per-serving figures. No figures yet? We work out an AI estimate and save it.
- How many calories in this?
- How much protein is in this?
- What's the nutrition?
- Full details
Use up leftovers
Name what's in the fridge and we find recipes from your cookbooks and the directory that use the most of it.
- What can I make with chicken and rice?
- Help me use up leftover ham and leeks
- Something with eggs, spinach and feta
Ask Kitchen Help
Ask what any cooking term, ingredient or technique means and hear the answer read aloud — even mid-recipe.
- What does julienne mean?
- What is arrowroot?
- What does fold mean?
Cook hands-free in Kitchen View
Huge text, screen kept awake and a voice that follows you step by step.
- Next step / previous step / repeat
- Show me the ingredients
- Set a timer for 10 minutes
- Add these ingredients to my shopping list
Shopping list
A universal list you can fill and tick off by voice — shared with your household in real time.
- Add bread, 2 litres of milk and kitchen roll
- Mark eggs as bought
- Remove butter
- Clear bought items
- Undo
Meal planner
Plan any day by voice, hear your week, or let us fill empty dinner slots with suggestions you approve.
- Add Chicken Stir Fry to my meal plan for Thursday
- Add this to my meal plan for Friday lunch
- What's on my meal plan this week?
- Plan my week with quick dinners
Historical recipes
Travel back in time by voice.
- Roman recipes
- Tudor recipes
- Historical French recipes
Get around the site
Jump anywhere without menus.
- My cookbooks
- Shopping list
- Meal planner
- Scan a recipe
- Kitchen Help
- Help / cancel
Voice FAQs
- Which browsers support voice?
- Chrome, Edge and Safari on desktop and mobile, including iPhone and Android.
- Is my voice recorded?
- No. Your browser turns speech into text and we only use the words needed to answer you. The mic pauses automatically when you switch tabs or go idle.
- Does voice search include my private recipes?
- Yes — when you're signed in, voice search covers your private recipes and cookbooks shared with you as well as public and historical recipes. Only you can see your private results.
- Can voice tell me the calories in a recipe?
- Yes. Ask "how many calories in this?" on any recipe or in Kitchen View and we read the per-serving figures aloud. Say "full details" for the rest. Missing figures are estimated by AI and saved.
- Can voice help me use up leftovers?
- Say "what can I make with chicken and rice?" and we rank recipes from your cookbooks and the public directory by how many of those ingredients they use.
- Can voice plan my meals?
- Yes. Add any recipe to a day, hear what's planned for the week, or say "plan my week with quick dinners" to fill empty dinner slots with suggestions you accept by voice.
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