However, we easily tripped it up with odd business names such as “Liuzza’s” (pronounced lie-OO-zuhz). Google’s speech-to-text engine was mostly accurate and fast-even with moderate amounts of noise in the background-especially with common names such as “James Martin” or names of cities, states, and countries. This technology also does a lot more than Apple’s fledgling voice control feature in iOS. While there’s still plenty of room for improvement, Google Voice Actions can be extremely handy in plenty of situations, including when you’re walking or hanging out in bright sunlight (which makes the screen hard to see). We got similar results by trying to e-mail an address that wasn’t in our contacts list. Tapping in the To: field, hitting the mic button, and saying the phone number yielded a Match Not Found error message. “Send Text Message to 50” yielded a text message with no address and “To 5046155152” in the body.You can also replace the number with a name from your contacts list or any business name saying “Call Elgin’s Jewelry in Baton Rouge” yielded the correct result thanks to Google’s integrated web search technology. Saying “call 55” initiates a phone call to that number.(Wikipedia has amazing depth of info on Ben’s off-field activities.) Simply saying Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s name yielded “Ben Roflisberger,” but Google’s web search correctly interpreted the result and gave us a link to info the info we wanted right up front.“Call Liuzza’s By the Track in New Orleans” dialed the number for the Louisiana Superdome.“Send email to Hi, it’s me.” yielded an e-mail with no address, and “music life line at hi it’s me” in the body (address was not in contacts).
In general, our results were more accurate with business names than with street names. We discovered the most powerful part of this action by saying “navigate to Elgin’s Fine Jewelry in Baton Rouge,” which brought up accurate spoken turn-by-turn directions illustrated on a 3D map. You can say “map of” or “directions to” followed by an address, business name, or type of business. Another drawback: You can’t enter an e-mail address with your voice unless it’s already in your contacts.Īccessing Google Maps for directions turned out to be our favorite Voice Action. If you have a Gmail account, checking your e-mail is a snap-just say “go to e-mail.” We were disappointed, however, that this command opens the web-based client, not Google’s Gmail app. (We have to stress that this does not make texting while driving safe.) We’d like to see a larger, more prominent microphone button for adding more text-or perhaps a setting within the app that enlarges the button for easier operation on the go. Speaking punctuation was a mixed bag the app recognized periods, question marks, and semicolons consistently, but it had a harder time with commas. To compose longer messages, we broke them up into chunks between each one, we pressed the tiny microphone button wedged into the virtual keyboard between the space bar and the symbol/number key. While this makes for a speedier overall process, it’s a lot to say quickly we’d love an option for a voice prompt between fields.ĭictating messages was smooth as long as we enunciated clearly and kept messages brief. Our tests generated correctly addressed texts with our message in the body from there all we had to do was hit Send.Į-mailing works similarly, but in addition to recipients and the message, you can add cc, bcc, and subject fields by speaking it all at once. To do this, say “send text (or SMS) to” followed by a contact name or number and a short message. Sending texts by voice is sure to become one of the most popular Voice Actions.
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