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Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual
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Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual

by Preston Gralla
December 2011
Beginner to intermediate
436 pages
14h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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, tap the microphone icon to the right of a Google search box, or else press the Search button and choose Voice Search from the screen that appears. Talk into the phone clearly. After you do, the Galaxy S II 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 carries out a search in exactly the same way as if you had typed in your search.

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If the Galaxy S II can’t understand what you said, it pops 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 in the nearby screen when the Galaxy S II was asked to do a search for the Beatles song “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”

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