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How To Make Any App Work For Voice Commands In Android

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Voice commands make life easy and interesting. But not every app supports and accepts voice commands as input. There is a way to make any keyboard responsive app to recognize the voice commands. This can be done easily using the Google assistant on your Android device.

Using Google Assistant

Android devices come with a built-in powerhouse voice command search known as the Google assistant. You can start it by just simply long pressing the Home button on your device. Then you can observe a small pop-up window appear on the screen. Just tap on the tray icon in the top right corner of the window. You will then be headed to the explore section of the Google assistant that lets you dig into the full capabilities of Google assistant.

Then you can change the settings of the app accordingly and make it work to its full capability and make the best use of it. You can change your preferences in your My day there. Also simply add things to your shopping list easily as Google assistant has got an integrated shopping list. You can simply say hey Google add ….. to my shopping list. In the same way, you can also reach Google for various things to know about your events in your calendar to plan things accordingly.

Voice Commands For Other Apps

Like ways, you can even use this voice commands feature for dictating text, messages, and emails in various applications that you might be using the Evernote, Messenger, Email apps. All you need to do is just enable the voice commands feature and then after opening the particular application, you just need to tap on the microphone icon that appears on the keyboard and start dictating. That is it, it will then begin to take your voice and then make it into text thus making your task really simple.

Use Google Assistant To Lock And Unlock Your Android phone

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Google assistant has quite a lot of features and it even allows you to lock and unlock your Android phone with just a simple voice command. Now let us dig deep into the subject and see how you can do this on your phone, to start with this process, your phone should have Google assistant enabled in it. If you don’t have it enabled in your device, then you must check out our article on it earlier and here it is

Newer Android phones (typically with Android 7.0 Nougat and newer) come with Google Assistant already installed in the device. You simply need to enable the feature and grant the Google app the relevant permissions while setting up the phone.

If you’re not sure if it’s enabled, open your Google app and tap the three-bar Menu button. Choose Settings > Google Assistant to check.

If you have an older version of Android, Google Assistant is delivered through an automatic update. Any phone with Android Lollipop (5.0) or higher can run the app. Download the Google Assistant app from Google Play if it’s not already built into your phone.

Lock And Unlock Using Google Assistant

Once you have the smart assistant from Google on your phone, then just follow these simple steps

• First, you need to have an additional to lock your device and you can use Off+, Screen off, Lock Screen for that purpose
• After installing one of these apps, just open the Assistant and tap on the drawer icon
• Tap the three dot icon and then click on Settings>Shortcuts
• Tap the blue + button there
• Fill the new shortcut with
When I say Ok Google: Lock phone
Google Assistant Should do: Open Screen Off
• And then click Save

You can change the voice command to anything that you may feel comfortable with. And you can even use any app in the place of Screen off if you wish to open any particular application with that command.

Now to unlock your Android phone, you can simply say that voice command that you have set. Simply switch your lock and unlock system in your device and make the process of locking, unlocking hassle free and quick as well.

Few interesting Google Now on tap features

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Google Now on tap is an interesting and useful search tool from Google that has been launched with the Android Marshmallow. Even after the launch of Google assistant in the latest android version from Google android Nougat, many people are still stuck with using Google Now. There might be many reasons for that. Their phone may not support the Nougat upgrade or just they don’t want to, but there are a lot of things that one can do using the Google Now on tap. Let me present you some of its little-known features for you

  • For finding the meaning of a word in your smartphone stop doing the process of copying and pasting the word in Google search, but there is actually a simple thing that you can use to find the meaning of a word while you surf the web or read something. Just select the word for which you need to know the meaning for and then long press the home button, it will show the meaning automatically.
  • Taking a screenshot may require you to hold a combination of keys if you use the same old mode to do that, but Google allows you to do that thing without the use of any keys, all you have to do is just keep hold the home button and then hit the share button which will be shown on the bottom of your screen and it will give you various options where you can share with your friends.
  • There are actually quick shortcuts available on android for various tasks like setting an alarm, reminder, calendar entry and all. You can find these shortcuts by pressing and holding the home button for a while.
  • Your smartphone actually has the ability to identify things and objects, all you have to do is just open the camera and face the camera towards the object or anything that you may want to know about and then hold and press the home button.

These are the simple interesting features that you can try if you don’t have Google assistant.

Enabling Google assistant on any android smartphone

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Google assistant, one of the most popularly known assistants and the official one from Google is quite popular among the android users. We have earlier learned about the process of getting Google’s smart assistant installed on our smartphones.Read it Here, but recently Google has announced that it has been planning to launch its assistant to all the android smartphones that are running on Marshmallow or higher. So, if you are using a phone with an older android operating system, then go on to the above link and follow that process to get that assistant and if you have Marshmallow you will have to wait for the official update for your phone to arrive from Google. If you cannot then here is how you can get the Google assistant enabled on your device.

Here is the process:

This is the process of enabling the assistant through beta apps and it can be done by following the below steps.

  • First of all, you have to get the beta versions of the Google Play services and the Google app. This can be done by going to Settings>Google>tap on the three dot icon and then tap on the Help and feedback option from the drop down box.
  • Now in that page again, you have to tap on the three dot icon and then click on the option open in the Google Play store. It will then take you to the Google Play Services Play store page.
  • Here just scroll down to the bottom of the screen and you can find the I’m In button there, just hit on it.
  • Then click on join in the pop-up window.
  • Now you have to wait for a few minutes to get the update to that application.
  • When you see the update option there in the application’s page, just tap on it and wait for it to install the update.
  • After it is done, you have to search for the Google app in the Playstore and then sign up for its beta version as well like you did for the Google Play Services. If you have any doubt regarding the using of beta version check out our earlier article on that Here
  • After updating both the application with the beta versions, just go to Settings>Apps, then select Google here and then click on Storage>Manage Space>Clear All data.
  • Change the language of the device to English US in the language input settings.
  • Then come back and select Google Play Services and then tap on Manage Space and then hit Clear All data.
  • After doing all that, open the Google app and set the things up as you are asked to.

Then you will see the same Google page, where you have to tap on Settings and then Google Assistant settings, click on it which will pop up the assistant’s window.

How to get Google Assistant on any android phone

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Google assistant is the major highlight among Google’s latest flagship phones launched in 2016 which are the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. This new AI-powered virtual assistant from Google is a great hit. The assistant has excellent recognition skills and it answers almost everything. This beats Siri and even other assistant in various other platforms. This Google assistant is not available any other android phones except the Pixel devices even on the devices running on android Nougat. While the rooted android devices running on android Nougat can get this assistant, and now the users of android devices with android Lollipop or higher can get the assistant officially.

Procedure:

Google alpha is the new version of the Google search app released by Google. This app brings a huge range of features along with the assistant in the non-pixel devices.

For this one needs to first download and install the Google search alpha app by following the steps below.  

  • Download the app Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha from the website APKMirror.
  • Now under Settings go to Security and then enable Unknown sources, this allows the user to install the downloaded APK files.
  • Then install the Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha app on your device.

Launch and setup Google assistant:

Once the app is installed just follow these steps below to setup the assistant on your device.

  • Press and hold the “home button” on your device. Then you should get to see a screen that says “New! You just got Google assistant”. Tap on the continue button.
  • Then the assistant will tell you how to ask questions and also ask for required permissions. Finally tap “Yes I am in”.
  • Goggle will then launch the assistant in your device and it will take you through some basics of using it.

Using these simple steps you can now get the assistant on you android phone with the help of the Google alpha app.