A veces, unas pocas palabras cuidadosamente elegidas pueden ser de gran ayuda.
Now notice, I'm not talking about interpersonal relationships here. (You are alone, friend). I'm talking about the timeless art of talking to your technician, an act that may make you look silly, and rightly so, but can be a real time and money saver. -efficiency enhancer in the right situation. Android has long excelled at voice control, and these days there's not much you can accomplish by whispering the right words into your phone's pretty virtual ear. The Google Assistant is full of voice command possibilities, the ever-so-slow new version of the Assistant adds even more options to the mix, and more new additions are constantly appearing. But all this is still a piece of cake compared to the true voice control power that Android can give you, if you know where to look. Google has an entire system of voice control superpowers that is out of sight, out of mind, and nearly impossible for the average person to find. But if you find out, Almighty Goog, you're in for a treat. It's technically an accessibility feature, hence its underrated nature, but trust me: this thing can be exceptionally useful for anyone. And once you get used to having it on your phone, you won't want to go back. Ready for your presentation?
Meet your new genius in Android voice control
The most appropriate system is called Voice Access. It lets you do just about anything you can do by simply touching the screen while you speak, including some things that make dictating text much easier and more convenient. The best ever? It only takes a few minutes to set up your device correctly. This is all you need to do:
Open the Voice Access Play Store page and install the app on your phone. It is an official Google application that integrates with Android, but you must install it before it is available to you.
Open the Voice Access app on your phone. You will see a prompt to enable Voice Access as an Android accessibility service. This is necessary for the application to work. So yes, you will see creepy warnings about all the things you can do by granting an app this level of permission, but again, an app of this nature needs to do what it needs to be, and remember: this is an official app. of Google. There is no need to worry.
Follow the prompts to access your phone's accessibility settings. Find and tap the Voice Access row, then turn on the toggle next to "Use Voice Access." (On a Samsung phone, the steps will be a bit more obscure; you'll need to hit "Installed Services" first, then find Voice Access in that menu and hit the "En" line to launch it.)
When prompted, select the option for the app to "Listen for commands whenever my screen is on." Don't worry: once we finish setting things up, it won't work unless you turn it on manually.
When prompted, give the app permission to record audio and handle calls on your phone (again, the required permissions for its full operation).
Once you've completed all of this and any other prompts the app may give you (such as enabling the general "Hey Google" voice activation feature, if you haven't already), you'll see a series of tutorial screens. Watch them if you want.
But don't run away just yet! We have important parameters to adjust.
Adjust your new Android voice control settings
Take a deep breath – the hard work is behind you and the next part is quick and easy. Start by swiping from the top of the screen. You should see a persistent voice access notification in your regular notification panel. Tap the word "Settings" inside. Now, on the settings screen that appears, find the line titled "Enable for incoming calls" and turn the toggle next to it to the off position. If you don't, Voice Access will activate every time your phone rings. This is an important feature for real accessibility purposes, but unless you have those kinds of needs, you probably don't want this happening on your device all the time. Next, hit the line titled "Listen behavior when screen wakes up" and change its setting to "Never start listening". On phones with older versions of Android, you may see "Wake on lock screen," in which case you'll just want to turn this option off. Either way, by default, again for accessibility purposes, Voice Access will turn on and start listening to your voice commands every time you turn on the screen. This could be a valuable feature in certain circumstances, but unless you have a real need for it, it will certainly be overkill. I have it? Good. Now let's explore some of his new superpowers.
Flex your new Android voice control muscles
Okay, first of all, here's the magic command to remember: Every time you say "Ok Google" or "OK Google" to activate the Assistant, you can now follow up by saying "Voice Access" to give yourself access to the full suite of Voice Access commands plus all items. wizard standard. Then all together say Hey Google, Voice Access to start the system. And once you do, boy are you going to have some powerful possibilities to play with. A few examples: You can say swipe or scroll up, down, left, or right, or even scroll up or down (which can be especially useful on something like a web page or a document, if you're reading while your hands are busy). You can ask Voice Access to press or hold any icon, button, or area on your screen or open any app, go back, go home, see notifications, see quick settings, or see recent apps. You can even ask him to pinch or nip. If the app you're in has a search function, you can say search followed by what you want to find. And if you want Voice Access to touch or interact with something that doesn't have an obvious label, you can tell it to show labels or show a grid for placing visible markers. your screen next to every touchable item, and then you realize it. to press, long press or open anything depending on the number that is nearby. (Remember that controls hide labels or hide the grid to remove those markers from your screen when you're done.)
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JR (Note that on phones running Android 10 or earlier, the grid and label systems are the only options you have for identifying items on your screen, so you'll automatically see all these numbers and need to use them to identify icons, buttons and links in voice commands. The ability to ditch that numbering system and just say the name of a button or other item requires Android 11 to work. But other than that distinction, everything else discussed here should work the same on any recent device). These are the basics of Android Voice Access. Hold on tight, because the best part is yet to come.
Enjoy your new hands-free text editing controls
The most useful Voice Access commands, if you ask me, are those related to text editing. These give you an amazing set of commands that are missing from the standard Android speech-to-text system and can be a great addition to any dictation. Some of the most notable possibilities:
- Whenever you are in a text field that contains words, you can say replace followed by one or more words on the screen, then the word or words you want to use as replacements. For example, replace "Jello in my stomach" with "Jelly on my graham."
- If you have a lot of replacements to do, you can use the replace all in the middle command; for example, replace everything between "Hello" and "How are you" with "I hope you're well, old friend."
- You can also ask Voice Access to insert text before, after, or between existing text in a field. So, for some examples, insert "jolly" before "chap", insert "pickle" after "delicious", or insert "strawberry" between "savory" and "canned".
- Do you detect a misspelled word in capital letters? Tell Voice Access to uppercase or lowercase any word in the current text field and it will fix it for you.
- You can tell Voice Access to remove a specific word or phrase in a field, or even remove everything.
- If you want your on-screen keyboard to appear or disappear, just say show keyboard or hide keyboard.
- If you ever make a mistake, something that never happens, I know, you can tell Voice Access to undo or redo (how about that?).
- And when you're done editing, you can tell to stop editing so Voice Access knows you can distract from the text field and hear other types of commands.
Speaking of which, two incredibly important voice access commands to remember:
- Ask What can I say? it will always show a list of possible commands with an option to see even more.
- And saying Stop Voice Access will turn off the system when it's done, so it's no longer active or listening (and won't come back until you turn it on manually). You will know that it is no longer activated when the dots or lines disappear in the left corner of your phone's status bar.
And one more thing: See that voice access notification that's now permanently stuck in your phone's notification panel? If you want, you can use it as another way to activate Voice Access without having to say "Hey Google" first. But if you don't plan on using it that way and would rather remove it from your hair, long press the notification and then select the option to turn it off. Voice Access will always be available through the standard command Hey Google, Voice Access, whatever. It's a lot to take, I realize. And I think some of them are best illustrated with a visual example, so here's a quick screen recording video of me showing a bunch of this stuff in action, using nothing more than my voice. charmed calming: Not bad, right? Give it a try, take some time to get used to how it works, and then keep it handy as a cool new option in your Android productivity toolkit. Do you want more insights from Google? Sign up for my weekly newsletter to get top notch tips and information delivered straight to your inbox.
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JR (Note that on phones running Android 10 or earlier, the grid and label systems are the only options you have for identifying items on your screen, so you'll automatically see all these numbers and need to use them to identify icons, buttons and links in voice commands. The ability to ditch that numbering system and just say the name of a button or other item requires Android 11 to work. But other than that distinction, everything else discussed here should work the same on any recent device). These are the basics of Android Voice Access. Hold on tight, because the best part is yet to come.
