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Use your voice on Android
You can speak into your Android phone or
tablet to search, get directions, send mes-
sages, and perform other common tasks.
To initiate an action or a search using your
voice, touch the
Microphone icon on the
Home screen or in the Google Search app.
If your device is running Android 4.1 or later,
you don’t have to touch the
microphone
— just open the Google Search app and say
“Google.”
IMPORTANT: To detect when you say
“Google” to launch Voice Search or
Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound
picked up by your tablet’s microphone
in intervals of a few seconds or less.
The sound is immediately discarded
after analysis and is not stored on the
device or sent to Google.