![]() You can actually perform a voice action just by typing it into the Google search box. Just say “Post to Google+” followed by your message. If you use Google+, you can use Voice Actions to post directly to it. This opens the Google Navigation app and starts navigating. To start getting turn-by-turn navigation directions to a location, say “navigate to ”. This opens the Google Maps app with directions to your specified location. To get directions to a location, say “directions to ”. For example, you could say “map of Vancouver” or “map of 123 fake street, New York” To view a map of an address or city, say “map of ”. For example, “Go to How-To Geek dot com” would bring you to our website. You can open a specific website by saying “Go to ”. You’ll be able to choose an app, such as Play Music or YouTube. Just say “listen to” followed by the name of a song, artist, or album. You can easily start listening to a song with voice actions. (This only seems to work in countries with Google Music.) Whenever you want to identify a specific song, ask “What’s this song?” and Google will give you a song-identification widget that uses your device’s microphone to identify a currently playing song. You don’t need a song-identification app like Shazam installed, either. Whenever you want to scan a barcode or QR code, say “Scan a barcode” and Google will give you a barcode-scanner. You don’t need a separate barcode-scanner app on your phone. To make a phone call, say “Call” followed by a phone number, a contact’s name, or a business. For example, you could instead say “Send SMS to Bob Smith, message, I’m on my way.” Voice actions can send text messages in the same way it can send emails. For example, you could say “Send email to Bob Smith, subject, Our meeting, message, I’ll be right there.” Voice Actions can be used to send an entire email. For example, you could say “Create a calendar event: Business Lunch in New York, Friday at noon.” You can easily create a calendar event by speaking it. It’s fine if the transcription isn’t perfect, as you can play back the audio later. This creates a note – both in audio and transcribed text – that will be emailed to your Gmail account. You can say something like “Set alarm for 20 minutes from now” or “Set alarm for 7 a.m.”. To quickly set an alarm, say “Set alarm for ”. For example, “Open Gmail” opens the Gmail app. This feature will only get more powerful as Google’s knowledge graph improves. If you search for something Google knows the answer to – like “How many people live on Earth?” – Google will show you the answer to your question and speak it back to you. ![]() However, this feature also works hand-in-hand with Google’s new knowledge graph. If you say something like “photos of narwhals”, Google will perform a search for narwhal photos and show them to you. If you say something that Google doesn’t recognize as another voice action, it will perform a simple Google search for it. The most basic – and obvious – of voice actions is as a simple Google Search. You can now say something out loud to perform a voice action. ![]() Your phone or tablet will start listening to your voice.
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