Droid X: The Missing Manual

What You Can Do with Voice Actions

Here are the commands you can issue with Voice Actions, along with how to use them:

• Send text to [recipient] [message]. Composes a text message to the recipient with the message that you dictate.

• Send email to [recipient] [subject] [message]. Composes an email message to the recipient with the subject and message that you dictate.

• Navigate to [address/city/business name]. Launches the Droid X Navigation app to guide you with turn-by-turn directions to the address, city, or even a specific business.

  Note

  You must turn on the Droid X’s GPS if you want to use Navigation with Voice Actions. Tap the GPS icon in the Battery widget on the navigation pane to do so.

• Call [contact name] [phone type/phone number]. Calls the contact. If the contact has more than one phone number, say the type of phone number to call—for example, home, work, or mobile. Alternatively, you can dictate a phone number, and the Droid X will call that number.

  Note

  In addition to looking through your contacts, the Droid X also searches contacts in social networking services such as Facebook that you have installed on your Droid X.

• Map of [address] [city]. Launches Google Maps and opens it to the address or city you named.

• Directions to [address] [city]. Launches Google Maps and show directions for how to get to the address or city you named. If the Droid X knows your location, it uses that as the starting point. If it doesn’t know your location, you must type it when Google Maps launches.