December 2011
Beginner to intermediate
436 pages
14h 59m
English
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What Can You Control with Your Voice?
YOU CAN TELL THE Galaxy S II to do much more than just make a call or send an email. Here are some other things you can do. Keep in mind that Voice Talk can recognize a wide variety of commands, so you should also experiment to see if it recognizes other commands as well.
Note
If you use a social networking service like Facebook on your Galaxy S II, it searches through your contacts on that service as well as the ones you’ve put into the Contacts list yourself.
Text <Name or #>. This command sends a text message to one of your contacts. You can also use the command Send Message to.
Call < Name or #>. Dials the phone number of the person. If there are multiple matches, it asks which it should use.
Navigate to < Place>. Launches the Navigation app and gives turn-by-turn directions to where you want to go.
Map of < Place>. Displays a map of a location.
Directions to < Place>. Gives you directions to a location.
Play < Song or Album>. Plays a song or album using the built-in Music app. If you want to listen to the last song that was playing, simply say Play.
Go to <Web site>. Say the name of a website, and you’ll head there in the browser.
Check Schedule. Looks at your schedule in Google Calendar and displays and reads the next thing you have scheduled. You can then tell it to display and read the next item on your schedule, the next after that, and so on.
Driving mode <on/off >. Turn on Driving mode and whenever you get a notification, your Galaxy II S will ...
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