Android basics
To search the web by speaking
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Press and hold the SEARCH button
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Touch the microphone icon in Quick Search Box.
(If you touch the microphone icon in an application's search box, you search the
application by voice, not the web.)
A dialog opens, prompting you to speak the words you want to search for.
When you're done speaking, Google search by voice analyzes your speech and
displays the results of your search.
Touch the Quick Search Box for a list of similar-sounding search terms, if
Google search by voice misunderstood you.
You can also preface your search by speaking special words, to take special
actions:
Say "Call" followed by a name from your contacts, followed by the kind of
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phone number ("mobile," "work," and so on), for example: "Call Mike
home." If there is a single match, the number is dialed automatically (see
"Dialing by voice" on page 80).
Say "Directions to" followed by an address to get directions to that location
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from Google Maps.
Say "Map of" followed by an address to view that location on Google Maps.
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