Voice Search
Want to save wear and tear on your fingers? Use voice search. It works like regular search, with one very important difference: Rather than typing your search, you speak it. Other than that, everything is the same.
To perform a voice search, press the Search button and hold it down until the Droid X makes a little trilling sound and a screen appears telling you to speak. Talk into the phone clearly. After you do, the Droid X shows you a little diagram of the words you just spoke, and then tries to interpret them. If it can’t understand your words, it tells you so; try again. If it does understand you, it does a search in exactly the same way as if you had typed in your search.
If the Droid X can’t understand what you said, it will pop up a list of suggestions. Tap any to perform the search. It does its best to find matches, but if you’re looking for something esoteric, it’s probably best to stick to tapping rather than talking. Check out the suggestions when asked to do a search for the Beatles song “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
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