Google Search for Android now supports relationship-based voice commands
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By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 12 February 2014 18:15 IST
Google has added a new feature to its Search that now allows users to
utilise relationship-based voice commands. The new feature will allow
Android smartphone users to make calls and sending messages directly via
voice commands for contacts that have been associated with their
relationship to the user.
The new feature by Google has been announced
within days of rolling out a new Google Search
update that enhanced its
voice-recognition feature and allowed a user to make calls, send
messages, and search using voice commands. The Mountain View giant
confirmed the news on its Google+ page.
The new feature allows
users to interact with the Android smartphone using relationship
descriptor for making calls and sending messages via voice commands;
however the relation has to be saved in the contacts.
For example,
Android smartphone users starting on Wednesday can use voice commands
for calling their mothers, by just saying "call Mom" and the device will
make a call to whichever contact that has been saved having the said
relation to the user.
The official Google+ post said, "Starting
now, the Google search app on your Android phone will be able to pull up
the right contact for you-and if you don't have Mom saved as "mom,"
it'll help you set that up quickly."
Android Police
notes that currently the new voice-guided Google Search includes
relationships namely father, mother, brother, sister, cousin, niece,
nephew, aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, wife, husband,
girlfriend, and boyfriend. The site also adds that Google will be adding
more relationship-based voice commands soon.
On Tuesday, Google rolled out a new update for its Search app for Android, that added a bunch of new
features to the app. The Google Search features an improved and
customizable time-to-leave system, which could be used to remind a user
who should be somewhere by a certain time and will inform the user when
should plan to leave instead.
The new update further added
reminders support for more languages namely French, Italian, German,
Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian.
In
addition, Google had also rolled out an update for the Google Play
Newsstand app that brought new features, such as headlines on the home
screen with the Newsstand widget, and a new 'mini cards' feature that
allows users to quickly access the headlines of the latest news.
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