9 voice commands to control your Google Now Android phone – Online Time

Created: Saturday, December 26, 2015 14:07

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Google Now is a gateway to the main Google search engine, so you can ask your beloved digital assistant almost anything you would look there: height the Eiffel Tower, how many inches are 6 centimeters or what’s on your agenda. But that’s not all, here are nine more useful commands.

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Note that these commands only work with the latest version of Google Now Android. The, smaller version, which is available for iPhone does not have the same level of integration with the system so that in such cases it is better to use Siri.

1. Turn on and off Bluetooth.

Google Now can adjust certain key elements of your phone including WiFi and Bluetooth. If you say “turn off wifi” or “turn on wifi” you will see as a shortcut to the action appears automatically running this (you can also do it manually by clicking on it. With the Bluetooth works the same way.

2. On or off the torch

The function flashlight in your phone can be activated and deactivated in the same way: just say “turn on flashlight” or “flashlight off” and the application of Google Now will do for you is especially useful in those situations in which you find yourself looking at a phone. dark room.

3. Read your posts

When you ask Google Now “Read My Messages” or “show me my messages”, your last 5 SMS onscreen commands successive voice can make the phone reads them aloud or to answer them also using the voice. A very useful feature when you are driving.

4. Launch applications

You can use voice control to launch Google Now also for almost any application. Just say “Open …” followed by the name of the app. We have tested it with Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Spotify. Also it works with web pages, but the URL in question should be easy to pronounce.

5. Play music

The command to play music automatically interpreted as the command “I’m feeling lucky” of Google Play Music, and jumps to a playlist created by the system based on what you’ve heard before. You can tell Google also “Playing music on …” and then select the app in question (Spotify, for example), but playback does not start automatically.

6. Call and send SMS to your contacts

Say “Call to … “or” Send a message to … “followed by the name of your contacts you can be used to quickly contact someone. You can even dictate the entire message via voice, if you like. The “Call …” option works even for the browser version of Google.

7. Set alarms

If you tell Google “Put an alarm at …” Then an alarm will be set without having to do anything else. Some own settings (such as the alarm tone) can not be established, but also is useful.

8. Change the brightness and volume

Unfortunately, you can not change the brightness and volume directly, but can instead to jump to the corresponding settings page mentioning anything having to do with them (“mute phone” or “lower the brightness” for example). This is certainly an area where we still need a little more polish.

9. Taking pictures and videos

You can use the “Open Camera” command to launch this app, or “record a video” to do the same but directly in video mode. “Take Photo” results in a list of applications that are capable of capturing image (the developer needs to enable it individually, because in our tests snapchat did appear as an option, for example, but not Instagram)

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