Voice-searching Chinese words by describing them in English — does anyone actually do this?

I had a moment yesterday where I wanted the Chinese for

"a place packed with people." I knew it was a 4-character

idiom (turned out to be 人山人海), but:

- I didn't know the pinyin, so I couldn't start typing it

- Typing "place packed with people" into Pleco gave me

single-word results, not the idiom

- I almost asked ChatGPT but felt silly opening a chatbot

for one word

What I instinctively wanted was to just *say* out loud

"how do you say 'a place packed with people' in Chinese"

and get back 人山人海 with audio + characters — the way

you'd ask a friend.

So my honest question, narrowed down:

1. Does anyone here actually voice-search Chinese

   vocabulary like this today? Which app / workflow?

2. For heritage speakers: when you know the meaning

   but not the pinyin, is voice your default, or do you

   still type the English meaning into a dictionary?

3. Or is this a non-problem — typing + ChatGPT is fast

   enough and voice would just be a gimmick?

Not asking which app is best — trying to figure out

whether "describe out loud → get the Chinese back" is

a real workflow people use, or just something that

*sounds* useful but nobody actually does.