How to put a voice call on android. Voice control android, full guide
- we bring to your attention a very practical and convenient application from the developer Hakuna_Matata, which drivers of transport will appreciate, as with the help of voice commands in this application you can, dial the number, call, search for the necessary contact, lay routes, open programs, as well as VoiceButton will voice incoming calls and automatically turn on speakerphone and many many others. Activation of the program takes place with using bluetooth and wired headset.
More about the program:
The application can work in two modes:
Normal - the mode in which the program will not talk to you. When determining contact with high accuracy, automatic dialing of the number can be made after the time specified in the settings. This mode can be used in the absence of a headset.
Behind the wheel - the mode in which the program will synthesize voice messages. This mode is useful when using a headset or when your hands are busy.
Modes can automatically switch when connecting and disconnecting a headset. In each mode, personal settings can be used. You can run the program using Bluetooth or a wired headset. Usually, to start with a Bluetooth headset, you need to press and hold the call button. To clarify, read the instructions for a specific model. In some cases, the launch of the program from the headset does not work. The reason may be in the headset or in the phone itself. To start from a wired headset, press and hold the headset button. In order for the launch to work when locked, activate the item in the settings. For all commands, you can use aliases (words for automatic replacement). The program uses built-in voice input and speech synthesizer. For searching places and voice navigation, the program supports Yandex navigator and Google maps. Provides backup and restore settings, a list of aliases.
Work with contacts
To search for a contact, you need to start the recognition of the program and, after the beep, say the text for the search.
Contact search works by name, number or part of it, type, organization name
Example: Alexey Ivanov, Anton 911, Mother home, Anton worker. For accurate identification of the contact, you can use an alias. This feature is available online and offline.
Work with programs
To run the program, you need to say the command "open application" + "program name".
For example: open the gallery app.
If you use a pseudonym, you can run programs using simpler words. For example, instead of "Open the gallery application" you can say "show pictures", unless of course you create such an alias. Aliases can be used to open programs with complex names. This feature is available online and offline.
Work with Yandex navigator
To find the nearest place, you need to say the command "navigator" + "place name or address". For the search, Yandex service is used. If you have installed a Yandex navigator and a place is found, the navigator will be launched and the route will be laid. This feature is only available online.
Work with Google Maps
To find the nearest place, you need to say the command "map" + "place name or address". Used for searching google service. If you have installed google maps and a place has been found, a program with a route suggestion will be launched. This feature is only available online.
Current time
To find out the current time just say the command "time" and the program will tell you it.
This feature is available online and offline.
The voice dial feature allows you to make a call by pronouncing a voice tag recorded for the contact.
Voice tags make calls without dialing. Voice tags can be any words.
for example, names.
In the phone's memory, you can record a certain number of voice tags.
The name should be pronounced exactly as it was pronounced during the recording.
Background noise interferes normal operation voice recognition systems, it is therefore recommended to record and
Too short marks are not perceived by the phone; Use long enough voice tags and not
write similar tags for different numbers.
You can record a voice tag for any contact that is stored in the phone’s memory. Save or
copy to the phone’s memory contacts for which you want to record voice tags. Voice tags can be
add for numbers stored on the SIM card, however, in this case, when replacing the SIM card, you will need to first
delete old voice tags and then add new ones.
1. In idle mode, press
and highlight the contact for which you want to record a voice tag.
2. Click
Details
, highlight the desired phone number, press
Var you
and select
Phonogram
3. Click
Start
and clearly pronounce the words you want to record as a voice tag. At the end
the phone plays the recorded mark.
Phonogram saved
accompanied by a sound signal. Next to the number for which you added a voice tag in the list
Contacts
symbol is displayed
Click
Menu
and select
Contacts
Phonograms
required to be played, modified or deleted.
If you have an application using a GPRS connection to send or receive data on the phone, close
this application before working with voice tags.
1. In the standby mode, press and hold the selection key.
. The phone will give a short sound.
signal and the display will show
Say phonogram
seconds will automatically start dialing.
Information numbers service numbers
Information or service numbers stored by your service provider may be stored on your SIM card.
Click
Menu
and select
Contacts
Info numbers
Service numbers
. Highlight the required information or
service number and press
to call this number.
Own numbers
The phone numbers assigned to the SIM card are stored in the menu
Own numbers
(if such function is supported by SIM
card). To view the numbers, press
Menu
and select
Contacts
Own numbers
. Highlight the desired name
or number and click
Cm.
Contacts
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Google Corporation began its activities as a search engine, and this moment Search for information using mobile devices remains one of the main directions of development. With each update of the phone / tablet system, Google play Services and individual programs, there are more and more new features designed to make life easier for the user. In this article I will talk about the most useful voice commands, contextual search Now on Tap, and also show you how to set up the phone to perform any voice commands, including using Tasker. After all, it was about this that we dreamed of, reading works of science fiction as a child.
Traditionally, all the latest developments from the "Corporation of Good" are being introduced on devices of the Nexus line. So it was with voice control, and with Google Now, the system of presenting information in the form of a set of cards. For Google Now, simple google search and voice search responds to one app, this is google. It is included standard applications from Google and is available on any certified Android smartphone.
Previously, voice control was activated only when you click on the microphone icon when open program search (or on the widgets on the desktop). Then came the Google Start launcher, which allowed you to perform voice commands directly from the desktop (using the phrase "Ok, Google"). Starting from Android 4.4, the same opportunity became available in other launchers, but only on condition that the launcher clearly supports this feature (almost all popular launchers support it).
There are also several smartphones with an advanced voice control function that can be activated even if the screen of the smartphone is turned off. For example, MOTO X contains a separate processor with very low power consumption, which is the only thing that background listens to all surrounding sounds for a key phrase.
Desktop search widget
Voice control
A simple search for information, of course, the most important feature of Google Now. And he is intelligent enough to understand the context, which means that teams can be combined into chains. For example, if you say: “O'key, Google, who is the president of Nicaragua?”, The search will give the answer “Daniel Ortega”. And if you further ask “How old is he?”, The answer will be “Seventy Years”. Google Now understands a lot of commands, I will give ten of the most useful.
- Maps and Navigation - “go / navigation # name street numberhouses". Launches Google Maps in navigator mode at the specified address. You can also specify the city, store, organization, and so on.
- Calculator - "Thirteen percent of five thousand." Will give the answer and the form of the calculator in the search box. Voice can dictate addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, the root of a number. You can also translate measures of weights, lengths and other things.
- Sending SMS / Messages - “write sms Oleg text I'm driving, call back later.” You can also send messages via WhatsApp, Viber and several other popular instant messengers. In a simplified scheme, you can dictate the "message # program # contact # text". For example: "Oleg WhatsApp message, I'm driving." After that, you can also confirm by sending with the “send” command.
- Dialing a number - "to call Mom". You can also dictate an arbitrary number that is not in the address book. With the command “call sister / brother”, you can specify the number from the contacts (if recorded differently), then the next time the dialing will take place automatically.
- Reminders and Alarms - “wake me up on Saturday at eight in the morning” or “remind me to turn off the stove after ten minutes”. You can also add events to your Google calendar. Events can be tied not only to time, but also to the place. If you add “remind me to print the text at work”, then when geolocation is turned on and the specified work address (place on the map), the reminder on the phone will pop up automatically. The usual clock built into the clock application is just as easy to start.
- Guess the melody - "what is this song." Launches the recognition of playing music.
- Music Video - “listen to (music) # group # song”. Launches the specified music in Play Music or a video on YouTube. It normally works with Russian names, but since it defines English words and artists, sometimes interpreting them incorrectly as Russian, it does not always work.
- Photo / video - "take a photo / record video." Launches the camera in the selected mode.
- Settings Management - “turn off Wi-Fi”, “turn on the flashlight”.
- Notes - “note for yourself the test password for the service one two three four”. Add a note to Google Keep.
Now on Tap
The description of this service was given a separate close attention to the presentation of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. And it was presented as one of the main features of the new firmware. But we got more or less normal functionality in Russia only in December. In the official Russian translation it is called context from Now.
How it works? “When you launch the context from Now, Google analyzes everything that you see on the screen and searches for information in accordance with this data” - this is the official description from the support page. In practice, this means that instead of highlighting and copying interesting phrases on the screen, then opening a search and inserting a phrase, you can simply press and hold the Home button. After that, Google will offer options for the found key phrases. These can be pictures, videos, an offer to open this place on maps, news. May offer to open an organization’s website or make a call, open a Facebook profile or watch a celebrity Twitter account, add a note. If there are relevant applications on the device after the tap on the icon, the page will open immediately inside the application. When listening to music from different applications, with one click you can call up detailed information about artists, albums, videos on YouTube and so on.
Easter eggs in Google search
Just like in the desktop version of the search, there are easter eggs in the voice search. I will cite only a few teams, the rest you can find out by this link. Unfortunately, almost all of them work only in English and with the English interface or only English selected in the settings.
“Do a barrel roll”.
"Make me a sandwich!"
“Sudo make me a sandwich!”
"When am I?"
“Beam me up, Scotty!”
“Up up down down left right left right”.
"What does the fox say?"
Tasker
If after all that you’ve read, you still don’t have enough commands to fulfill your fantasies, then, with a little time, you can set up Google Now to execute almost any command. To do this, we will need first of all the AutoVoice plugin.
Using Tasker, you can perform many actions: launch applications, control sound, launch scripts, control the screen, manipulate files, press buttons on the screen, manage media, make HTTP Get and Post requests and respond to them, manage advanced phone settings. And all this can be done by giving voice commands. And with the help of many plug-ins, the functionality expands even more.
To get started, you must enable the Google Now Integration option inside AutoVoice. In Tasker, you need to create a separate profile for each team or group of teams. As usual, I recommend including English in Tasker settings for compiling profiles. For the test profile will make voice command mute sound To do this, create a new profile with the parameters Event → Plugin → AutoVoice Recognized. Fill in the following fields:
- Command filter - here we enter the necessary voice command, in our example: “turn off the sound”. If you click on the line Speak Filter, then the command can be dictated.
- Exact Command - If you tick, it will only work on the exact command, otherwise it may work on every single word or form of the word.
- Use Regex - use regular expressions. Allows you to customize the recognition of multiple words in one profile. If you enter “(turn off | turn off) (sound | volume)” without quotes in the first field, then the profile will be triggered by the commands “turn off sound”, “turn off volume”, “turn off sound” and “turn off volume”.
For action, use Audio → Ringer Volume and Audio → Notification Volume. To control the triggering, you can add a pop-up notification via Alert → Flash and in the Text field enter “Off”.
The “turn off wifi” commands work immediately in Google Now, and “turn off the sound” offers to open the settings. And after intercepting the command through Tasker and its execution, it still remains on the current screen with the request. Therefore, we add App → Go Home to the actions. Well, in order to amuse friends, in all profiles for voice control, you can first put Alert → Say and enter the phrase "I obey, master." Then the phone in response to commands will respond with a voice.
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With the help of additional plug-ins, such as AutoRemote, you can control other Android devices. And if you put EventGhost on a computer, then with the help of numerous plugins you can do a lot of interesting things. Setting up a smart home will be one of the most useful applications, but this is a separate big story. Joao Dias, the developer of all Auto * plug-ins, also has an add-on for the company, which allows you to integrate control mobile devices via voice assistant Cortana on the desktop.
Some tricks
Tasker is hardcore. You can create amazing things, but for this you need to master a lot of information, understand the variables, regular expressions and so on. For those who do not want to mess with Tusker, there are a large number of programs that use voice control, but have a more understandable and accessible interface and are easy to use. I will dwell on three.
The program allows you to change the key phrase from "Ok, Google" to any other. Unfortunately, after one of the service updates and a request from Google, it stopped working with the Google Engine, leaving only PocketSphinx. In this regard, only English phrases are suitable for a key phrase, but earlier it was possible to surprise those present by calling “hey, you” or “listen to the command” to the phone.
Nevertheless, the developer promises to fix everything in the next updates. Of the other functions, you can note the launch of recognition by the proximity sensor (two flaps of the arm) and by shaking the phone. Like MOTO X, it supports recognition when the screen is off, but, unfortunately, it is very much reflected on the battery, therefore it is important for a charging phone or automotive media centers on Android with constant power. Works with Bluetooth-headset, has integration with Tasker, can read out text messages.
Another program from the developer Open Mic +. Integrates with Google Now and allows you to use an extended set of commands. In the list of supported there are the following: enable / disable wireless access point, pause / resume music, next / previous song, unread SMS / gmail (voiced by voice), volume, lock your phone, take a photo, take a selfie. You can also turn on the recorder, control the backlight, auto-rotate the screen. With the root, you can turn off / reboot the phone, clear notifications, turn on the “In the airplane” mode. For supported functions, you can change commands to your own. It also has integration with Tasker, allowing you to enable for each task triggering on Task. There is a module for Xposed, allowing you to use Commandr with Android Wear.
Assistant Dusya
And finally, the brainchild of Russian developers is the Russian-speaking voice assistant Dusya, which combines all the advantages of the described applications and utilities. Like Tasker, Dusya allows you to create your voice functions (they are called "scripts"), and in a much more understandable and simple form (there is help in Russian, video tutorials) and with more powerful functions of working with speech commands. In addition, there is also its online catalog of ready-made scripts created by other users. At the time of this writing, there were about a hundred.
Just like the Commandr, Dusya can integrate with Google Now, and also has many types of other contactless activations - shaking, sweep, headset, presentation to your ear, including your activation phrase in Russian. And if you want to use the interface, then it is, very simple, fast and functional. Among the functions there are 25 of the most frequently requested, there is even the management of smart homes and home theaters.
findings
Today, voice search functions in smartphones are very developed, and, as you can see, the developers offer us not just a set of commands to search for information, but a full-fledged smartphone control system, which with certain efforts can be integrated with a home computer and even a smart home. So, if it is more convenient for you to manage all this with your voice, you have everything you need for this.
Last updated by at November 18, 2016.