September 2011
Beginner
444 pages
12h 13m
English
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What You Can Do with Voice Actions
Here are the commands you can issue with Voice Actions, along with how to use them:
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 your Galaxy Tab’s Navigation app to guide you with turn-by-turn directions to an address, city, or even a specific business.
Note
In addition to looking through your contacts, the Tab also searches contacts in social networking services such as Facebook that you’ve installed on your Tab.
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 shows directions for how to get to the address or city you name. If the Tab 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.
Listen to [artist/song/album]. Don’t expect this to launch the Music app and play music—that’s not what it does. Instead, it works in concert with a radio app, similar to Pandora, which you can download from the Market. When you speak the instruction, it plays the radio station that you’ve already created for the artist, song, or album. If you haven’t created one, then it creates it for you. If you have multiple apps that can play music, the Tab asks which you want to use to complete the action. Once you choose an app, you get a notice asking whether ...
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