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To perform a voice action:
1 Touch and hold Search to open the voice search
dialog.
2 Speak the voice action you want to perform.
Tip: You can also open the voice search dialog by
touching in the Google™ Search widget.
If voice search doesn’t understand what you said, it
presents a list of search terms and actions you can touch
to choose.
Some actions, like “send email” and “note to self,” open
a panel that prompts you to complete the action by
speaking or typing more information.
Voice Action Commands
Say Followed by
Words you
want to
search for
Example: “Bike shoes.”
Contact
name
Example: “Mike LeBeau” (opens
Mike’s contact card).
“Call” Contact name & optionally, “home”,
“mobile”, or “work.”
Example: “Call Mike LeBeau at
home.”
“Call” Digits of a phone number.
Example: “Call 650 555 1234.”
“Call” Business name.
Example: “Call Native Here Nursery.”
“Map of” Address, name, business name, type
of business, or other location.
Example: “Map of Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco.”
“Directions
to” or
“Navigate
to”
Address, name, business name, type
of business, or other destination.
Example: “Directions to 1299 Colusa
Avenue, Berkeley, California,” or
“Navigate to Union Square, San
Francisco.”
“Go to” Search string or URL.
Example: “Go to Google.com.”
“Send text”
or “Send
SMS”
“To” & contact names, “Message” &
message text (speak punctuation).
Example: “Send text to Hugh Briss,
subject, new shoes, message, I can’t
wait to show you my new shoes,
period.”
Say Followed by