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AUG-2.2.1-101 Android User’s Guide
Using Voice Actions
You can use Voice Actions in Voice Search to call your contacts, get directions, send
messages, and to perform a number of other common tasks, in addition to searching
the web.
Use Voice Actions to search the web or perform other tasks
1 Press & hold the Search button . Or touch the Microphone icon in the
Google search box or in the Browser’s URL box.
The first few times you open Voice Search, it offers hints about how to use it and
offers to play an introductory video. You can touch Speak now to use Voice
Search at any time.
Subsequently, a dialog opens, prompting you to speak Voice Actions or search the
web. You can touch Help to open the hints screen again.
2 Speak the voice action you want to use, or the words you want to search for.
The complete set of Voice Actions is detailed in “Voice Action commands” on
page 89.
When you’re finished speaking, Voice Search analyzes your speech and initiates
the action.
If you have the Use My Location setting checked in the Google Search settings,
local results are featured in your search results (see “Changing Google Search
settings” on page 85).
If Google Search didn’t understand what you said, it presents a list of similar-
sounding search terms and actions, which you can touch to continue with that
action.
Some Voice Actions open a panel where you’re prompted to complete the action,
by speaking or typing, as described in “Complete a Voice Action” on page 87.