Google ANDROID 2.3.4 Manuale Utente

Searching by text and voice

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Android User’s Guide

Using Voice Actions

You can use Voice Actions in Voice Search to call your contacts, get directions, send 
messages, and to perform a number of other common tasks, in addition to searching 
the web.

For the current list of languages and locations supported by Voice Actions, visit the 
Google Mobile Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/mobile

Use Voice Actions to search the web or perform other tasks

1

Press & hold the Search button 

 . Or touch the Microphone icon 

 in the 

Google search box or in the Browser’s URL box.

The first few times you open Voice Search, it offers hints about how to use it and 
offers to play an introductory video. You can touch Speak now to use Voice 
Search at any time.

Subsequently, a dialog opens, prompting you to speak Voice Actions or search the 
web. You can touch Help to open the hints screen again.

2

Speak the voice action you want to use, or the words you want to search for.

When you’re finished speaking, Voice Search analyzes your speech and initiates 
the action.

If you have the Use My Location setting checked in the Google Search settings, 
local results are featured in your search results (see “Changing Google Search