Android Voice Commands, also known as “Android Voice Actions” (that’s the official name) let you speak a command to your Droid phone and it Does Something that you told it to do… without any typing! (or without much typing).
For example you can tell your Android Phone to “Call” someone, “Navigate” to someplace, or “Map Parks”… and the dutiful droid phone does what you tell it.
In the first example, it will Dial the number for the person you told it to “Call”. Next, it would give you spoken voice directions to get to (Navigate to) that place you told it you wanted to go, and lastly, it would show you a Map of all the parks nearby on your smart phone’s display.
Android Voice Commands – Common Commands
Here are a few common Voice Commands you should try out to make Voice Actions work for you. I’ll cover the details on what they are supposed to do in another tutorial (or set of tutorials). You should be able to say the following words with usually something after them, and your Droid phone will Do It!
Try these out:
• Call (say a name), Call (say a number),
• Text, Send Text to (say a name, then your message)
• Map, Map of (say something, like “Parks”, “Pizza places”, etc.),
• Email (say a name, then say “subject”, then say “message” and go for it) – this one is fun, we’ll do another article on it for sure,
• Directions to, Navigate to (say an address or the name of a place),
• Listen to (say a musical group, or a song title),
• Note to Self (sends you an email),
• Go To (say a website address)
There’s much more, and each of the above has their own special options, we’ll look into it together if you like. Leave a comment asking what you want covered next.
ALERT: HTC Incredible users (and maybe others as well), Your Voice Commands seem to work better if you say them without the “to” word. i.e. “Send Text (say a name, then your message)” or “Email (say a name, etc. see above list)”
Android Voice Commands
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