As a voice command. "Google Okay" or full Android voice control manual

Many of you probably have already heard that Motorola has published its very interesting Touchless Control application, intended for the Android voice control by the device, which was implemented by them on the new Moto X smartphone and new Droid family devices.

However, the Touchless Control, it works only on a limited number of Motorola devices, which includes the following devices of this manufacturer: Droid Ultra, Droid Mini, Droid Maxx and Moto X. Therefore, many of those who first delighted the new application were disappointed that they would not be able to Take advantage of voice control on other smartphones and tablets. If you also feel about their number, we have good news for you.

One of the independent developers created its own Open Mic + application, which is intended to organize voice control by any Android devicesmi in the style of Touchless Control from Motorola.

Use the application is very simple. Just say the phrase "Okay Google" or make your hand above your phone screen and google now will start in voice command reception mode. After installing and starting it, you can enter the settings menu and set the application activation mode manually or using the key phrase (HOT PHRASE menu item). By default, this is the phrase "OK, Google Now", but you can change it to another.

In addition, here you can enable automatic loading Applications when you turn on your device (Start On Boot) and make your phone or tablet receive voice commands even with the screen off (keep in mind this mode will eat battery charge, so it is better to use it occasionally or when the phone or tablet is connected to the charger device).

Moreover, the Open Mic + application can work in a pair with another application - Tasker, thanks to which the possibilities of managing your phone or tablet are increasing to truly unlimited sizes. The only limitation existing in the program is that your tablet or smartphone must have an operating android system Family Jelly Bean or older.

[!]ATTENTION: To work the program, you need to pre-install Google Now, if you do not stand standard.

Developer: RSEN.
Platform: Android 4.1 and above
Interface language: Russian (RUS)
Condition: Full (full version)
Root: do not need

You can interact with the computer not only with the keyboard and mouse. Also available to voice commands. Exist special utilitiesthat allow it to do. Their functions include not only the text entry under the dictation or decoding audio recordings. Through them you can run applications, use them, and in general - do anything. Computer management vote makes it easier to work with PC. Commands are transmitted operational and without extra effort. Of course, if you have a microphone.

We will introduce you to applications with similar functionality.

This feature is built into English-speaking windows version. To use it, you must have an Enterprise or Ultimate license. But also in Russified operating systems You can configure voice management and text dictation. Use one of the following applications.

With the application to figure it out easy

Popular program. Although has its drawbacks. The essence of her work is simple: Specify the command and choose which action it should be performed. Consider the configuration of this application on a specific example.

Download and install it. There is a free and premiun version. The second must be bought to try it on the computer.
Run the utility. It will appear in the information window with prompts.
There are many different features on its control panel. Some - with the same names. It is necessary to navigate the picture, and not on the inscription. Click the Add button - the face is shown on it.
Set the profile name and keywordwhich will mark the command. For example, write "Open" if you are going to configure the launch of some application voice. Or "Go to" to instantly go to some site without entering its address.
Now it is necessary to write this command in the form of a sound image. Click on the button with a red circle. And clearly, clearly say the desired phrase into the microphone.
Confirm the changes. The specified option will appear in the list in the TYPLE window. The program will remember what you recorded on her "recorder".
After that, specify that, in fact, to run to execute the command. Click the "Add" button, which looks like a hand with the "+" symbol (plus).
Select Data Format: Files / Utilities, Internet Pages, Some Internal OS Services. Put the "checkmarks" where you need.
Find the application you want to run voice. Let it be, for example, Microsoft Word.. So you can very quickly proceed to edit some text or writing article.
In the same window, write down the second part of the team. So that in the amount it turned out to "open a Word". The first word will activate TYPLE, the second is to include a tied utility.
Click "Add".
To one function "Open" you can hook several applications. So you will manage their launch without touching the mouse and others peripheral devicesinstalled on the computer.
If necessary, edit additional parameters.
To check, it turned out or not, click on "start talking" and tell the team.

The program works with the Russian language. But it is not always correctly recognizes. It is necessary to say loudly, clearly, mechanical voice.

Do not need knowledge of English.
Quick command creation.

No text recognition.
Limited functionality. You can only open utilities and pages on the Internet.
The program sometimes perceives extraneous noise as teams. Because of this, strange things happen on PCs.
It is impossible to work with the player.

Spechka.

Another computer management application

When you first start, a window opens with a selection of category: PC or Internet.
There is also an explanation, which combination of keys you need to activate the utility. This can be changed in the settings.
Click, for example, to "Internet". A window with multiple fields for input will open: for the text text and the URL of the site. You can write the word "Yandex" and address of this page.
Click "Add".
Hold the keys specified on the main window.
Say the team to "remember her utility."

Activation both keys and sound volume.
When you start, you can calibrate the microphone.

Limited functionality.

SPEAKER

The interface is made in a minimalist key.

The commands in the appendix are configured using printed words, not dictation. There is an internal text recognition mechanism. Main functions:

Creating screenshots by team.
Changing the keyboard layout on the computer.
Opening applications and files.
Completion of work.

You can not do audio recording with the team. The utility recognizes the inscription.

To control you need to use the keyboard. If the specified button is used for other purposes, it will be inconvenient.
We need a stable Internet connection.

Gorynych

The hero of Russian folk fairy tales will help you

The program for managing a computer voice "Gorynych" is a domestic product. Therefore, there is a "native" speech recognition module. It "adapts" to the timbre and user intonation. With the utility you can fully work in the system, and not just open files and web pages.

There is support for Russian and English.
Declamation of text, voice input to any editors.
Advanced functionality.

You need to independently create commands for each process. Literally will have to record the dictionary.

Windows Speech Recognition

Built in the English OS program. To use it you must have the appropriate language package. Russian teams will not work with her. To manage the PC with its help, you will have to speak in her language. To gain access to it in the panel windows settings Open the "Language and Regional Standards" menu (it is in the category "Clock, Language, Region") and install "English" in all tabs. If everything is correct, and you have the necessary language pack, Windows will turn into English, and the utility will become available. It is better not to try these method if you do not know someone else's language.

This method will be suitable if you speak English

Other utilities

There are some more applications to manage such commands:

Extensions for browsers. Eliminarize the surfing on the network. IN Google Chrome. There is already a built-in such function - voice input to search forms. This option is on some online maps. It allows you to quickly find the address.
VoiceType.
Realspeaker.
Web Speech.

List of text recognition programs and records for dictation

Driving a voice is, of course, good. But may be useful utilities for text recognition and printing under dictation. In compiling voluminous reports, diplomas easier to record their thoughts, voicing them into the microphone on the computer. Here are some such utilities:

Dotograph.
Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Perpetuum mobile.

Product that allows you to dictate text computer

In the OS, you can configure voice commands. To do this, an appropriate program must be installed on the computer. With her you can work on a PC, lying on the sofa or lounging in the chair. You will have arm free. If the microphone is good and catches even remote or quiet sounds, you will not need to sit next to him. You can simultaneously "talk" with a computer and record a summary in the notebook, draw, keep something. Yes, even sew and knit. With the commands to interact with PC much easier. To activate some such utilities, you need to press buttons on the keyboard, which is not very convenient.

But there are negative aspects. If you accidentally tell the word command, the application completely unknown now does not need an application or a browser will turn to some site. How to use and use whether to use you at all.

Using the OK's voice command, Google can be played on the Internet and manage other android features Devices. But this feature only works in the Google Now application. In order for this voice command to work in any application, you must make some changes to the settings. Now you will learn how to include Google Okai on Android.

To enable the Google OK voice control feature, open Google Now. In most cases this application Opens by swipe from the on-screen button home. On the sAMSUNG smartphones To open Google Now, click on the "Home" mechanical button, and then click on the Google button at the bottom of the screen.

After opening the Google Now application, you must click on the button opening sidebar. She is in the left upper corner Screen.

In the settings window, you need to go to the "Voice Search" section, and then in the "Goga Recognition" subsection.

After a three-time repetition of the OK command, Google on the screen will appear about the completion of the setting. Now you can use voice control from any application.

What to do if nothing works? If a this instruction You did not work, then you may need to update the application responsible for the function of the voice control OK Google. To do this go to the app store Google Play. And find the application there with the name "Google" (yes, this application is just called Google) and update it by clicking on the "Update" button.

For what can be used voice control OK Google? Voice control allows you to perform many types typical of a mobile device without using hands. For example, with voice commands, you can create a reminder, find an event in the calendar, open the application, call, write a message, pave the route, and of course you can search the Internet.

Google Corporation began its activities as a search engine, and at the moment the search for information with the help of mobile devices remains one of the main directions of development. With each update of the phone / tablet system, Google Play Services. And individual programs appear more and more new features designed to facilitate the life of the user.

In this article, I will talk about the most useful voice commands, the contextual search for Now on Tap, and also show you how to configure the phone to perform any voice commands, including with the help of Tasker. After all, it was about this that we dreamed, reading the works of fiction in childhood.

Traditionally, everything newest Development From "Corporation of Good" are introduced on the devices of the Nexus line. So it was with voice control, and from Google Now, a system for submitting information in the form of a set of carickeepers. For google now, simple google search And voice search meets one application, this is Google. It is included standard applications From Google and Available on any Android-smartphone certified.

There are also several smartphones with an advanced voice control function, activate, even if the smartphone screen is turned off. For example, Moto X contains a separate processor with very low power consumptionwhich is just doing that in background mode Listens to all the surrounding sounds for the key phrase.

Previously, the voice control is activated only by pressing the microphone icon when open program Search (or on desktop widgets). Then appeared the Google launcher started, which allowed to perform voice commands directly from the desktop (using the phrase "OK, Google"). Starting with Android 4.4, the same opportunity has become available in other launchers, but only provided that the Launcher clearly supports such an opportunity (almost all popular launchers are supported).

Voice control

Simple information search, of course, the most important function Google Now. Moreover, it is enough intellectual to understand the context, which means that the commands can be combined into chains. For example, if you say: "Okay, Google, who is President Nicaragua?" The search will issue the answer "Daniel Ortega". And if you need to ask "how old about him?" The answer will be "seventy years." Google Now understands the mass of the teams, I will give ten most useful.

Maps and navigation - "We went / navigating the name streets # numberat home". Runs Google Maps in navigator mode at the specified address. You can also specify the city, shop, organization, and so on.
Calculator - "Thirteen percent of five thousand". Let's give the answer and the form of the calculator in the search box. The voice can be pressed by adding, subtraction, multiplying, division, number root. You can also translate the measures of weights, lengths and other things.
Sending SMS / Posts - "Write SMS Oleg Text I'm driving, call back later." You can also send messages through WhatsApp, Viber and some more popular messengers. By simplified scheme, you can dictate "Message # Program # contact # Text". For example: "Whatsapp message Oleg I'm driving." After that, you can also confirm the sending to the "Send" command.
Dialing a number - "to call Mom". You can also dictate an arbitrary number that is not in the notebook. When you "call the sister / brother" command, you can specify the number from the contacts (if written differently), then the next time the set will pass automatically.
Reminders and alarm clocks - "Wake me up on Saturday at eight in the morning" or "Remind me to turn off the slab in ten minutes." You can also add activities to Google Calendar. Events can be tied not only by time, but also to the place. If adding "Remind me to print the text at work", then when the geolocation is enabled and the specified version address (location on the map), the reminder will pop up automatically on the phone. The usual embedded in the "clock" timer will start as easy.
Guess the melody - "What is this song." Running the decisions of playing music.
Music Video - "Listen (music) # band # song." Launches the specified music in Play Music or clip on YouTube. It works normally with Russian names, but since English words and performers determines, sometimes incorrectly interpreting under the Russian language, it does not always work.
Photo / video - "Make a photo / write a video." Runs the camera in the selected mode.
Management Settings - "Turn off WiFay", "turn on the flashlight".
Notes - "Note for yourself Test password for service one two three four." Add a note in Google Keep.

NOW ON TAP.

Description of this service was given separate close attention to the presentation Android 6.0 Marshmallow. And he was presented as one of the main features new firmware. But more or less normal functionality in Russia we received only in December. In the official Russian translation it is called context from now..

How it works? "When you run a context from Now, Google analyzes everything you see on the screen and is looking for information in accordance with these data" - here is the official description from the support page.

In fact, it means that instead of allocating and copying the phrases of interest on the screen, then open the search and paste the phrase, you can simply press and hold the "Home" button. After that, Google will offer options for key phrases found. It may be pictures, video, offer to open this place on the maps, news. May offer to open the site organization or make a call, open profile Facebook. Or see a twitter account of celebrities, add a note. If you have appropriate applications on the device after tap on the icon, the page will open immediately inside the application. When listening to music from different applications You can contact detailed information about the performers, albums, clips on YouTube and other things.

As well as in the desktop version of the search, there are easter eggs in the voice search. I will give only a few teams, you can learn the rest at this link. Unfortunately, almost all of them work only on english language And with the English interface or when English is selected in the settings.

"DO A BARREL ROLL".
"Make Me A Sandwich!"
"Sudo Make Me A Sandwich!"
"WHEN AM I?"
"BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!"
"UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT".
"What Does the Fox Say?"

Tasker.

If after all the commands read still do not have enough teams to embody your fantasies, then having a little time, you can configure Google Now to perform almost any commands. For this, we will first need Tasker and Autovo Plugin.

Using a tasque, you can make many actions: run applications, control the sound, run scripts, control the screen, carry out manipulations over the files, press the buttons on the screen, manage Media, do queries http. Get and POST and respond to them, manage the advanced phone settings. And all this can be done by giving voice commands. And with the help of a set of plugins, the functionality expands even more.

To start work it is necessary to enable google point NOW INTEGRATION inside Autovo. In the tasker, you must create a separate profile for each command or group of commands. As usual, it is recommended to include English in the tasker settings to compose English. For a test profile, we will make a voice off voice command. To do this, create new profile With parameters Event → Plugin → AutoVoice Recognized. Fill the following fields:

Command Filter. - Here I enter the necessary voice command, in our example: "Turn off the sound". If you click on the Speak Filter string, the command can be jammed.
Exact Command. - If you put a tick, it will only work on an accurate team, otherwise it can work for each individual word or word form.
Use Regex. - Use regular expressions. Allows you to configure the recognition of multiple words in one profile. If you enter in the first field "(off | Turn off) (sound | Volume)" without quotes, then the profile will work on the "Turn off the sound" command, "Turn off the volume", "Turn off the sound" and "Turn off the volume".

For action are used Audio → Ringer Volume and Audio → Notification VOLUME. To control the trigger, you can add a pop-up notification through Alert → Flash. And in the Text field, enter "turned off".

Wi-Fi off commands work immediately on Google Now, and "Turn off the sound" offers to open settings. And after interception, the command through the tasker and its execution still remains on the current screen with the query. Therefore, adding actions additionally add App → Go Home. Well, to steal friends, in all profiles to control the voice can be performed first Alert → Say. And enter the phrase "I am listening, the owner." Then the phone in response to the team will respond by voice.

With additional plug-ins, such as Autoremote, you can control other Android devices. And if you put EventGhost on the computer, then with the help of numerous plugins you can make a lot of interesting things. One of the most useful applications will be setting up a smart home, but this is a separate big story. Juan Diaz (Joao Dias), the developer of all AUTO * -Plagins, is also an addition for the computer, which allows you to integrate control mobile devices Through the voice assistant Cortana on the desktop.

A little tricks

Tasker is hardcore. You can create stunning things, but for this you need to learn a lot of information, deal with variables, regular expressions and other things. For those who do not want to mess around with a tasker, there is a large number of Programs that use voice control capabilities, but have a clearer and accessible interface and easy to use. I will stop on three.

1 Open MIC + for Google Now

Allows you to change the key phrase with "OK, Google" to any other. Unfortunately, after one of the service updates and the request from Google ceased to work with Google Engine, leaving only PocketSphinx. In this regard, only English phrases are suitable for the key phrase, but earlier it was possible to surprise those present by calling to the telephone "Hey," or "Listen to the team."

Nevertheless, the developer promises to fix everything in next updates. From other functions, you can note the launch of the recognition on the approximation sensor (two cramps hands) and on the phone shake. Like Moto X, supports recognition when the screen is turned off, but, unfortunately, it is very much reflected on the battery, so it is relevant for the phone on charging or car media centers on Android with constant nutrition. Works with a bluetooth headset, has integration with a tasker, can read text messages.

2 Commandr for Google Now

Another program from the developer Open MIC +. Integrates with Google Now and allows you to use an extended set of commands. The list of supported is the following: Enable / disable the wireless access point, pause / resume music, the next / previous song, unread SMS / Gmail (voiced by their voice), Volume<х>, blocking the phone, take a picture, make selfie. You can also turn on the voice recorder, control the backlight, the screen of the screen. With the root, you can turn off / restart the phone, clear notifications, turn on the "aircraft" mode. For supported functions, you can change commands to your own. Also has integration with a tasker, allowing you to enable for each task a trigger called Task. There is a module for Xposed, allowing you to use Commandr with Android Wear.

3 Assistant Dusia

Well, finally, the brainchild of Russian developers - Russian-speaking voice assistant Dusya, which combines all the advantages of the described applications and utilities. Like Tasker, it allows you to create your own voice functions (they are called "scripts"), and in a much more understandable and simple form (there is a certificate in Russian, video tutorials) and with more powerful features of work with speech teams. In addition, there is also your own online catalog of ready-made scripts created by other users. At the time of writing, there were about a hundred.

Just like Commandr, I know how to integrate with Google Now, and also has many species of other contactless activations - shaking, waving, headset, bringing to the ear and including its own phrase of activation in Russian. And if you want to use the interface, then it is, very simple, fast and functional. Among the functions there are 25 most commonly sought after, there is even a management of smart houses and home cinemas.

Conclusion

Today, voice search functions in smartphones are very developed, and, as you could make sure, developers offer us not just a set of commands for finding information, and a full-fledged smartphone management system, which can be integrated with a home compartment with a smart home. So, if you are more convenient to manage all this with the help of a voice, you have everything you need for this.

So, I hurry to inform you - these times have already come. Maybe not fully, but we are moving in this direction by seven-mile steps. In any case, today you can quite efficiently talk to your phone. Owners iPhone. have long have such an opportunity thanks to the Siri function, and all android users We want to recommend free voice assistant Assistant in Russian.

So, the program Assistant in Russian Allows you to manage your phone and perform the most common actions using voice commands. All commands are divided into several categories, short description which looks like this.

Search

What does Paris look like? What is gravity? How many meters in Mile?

And any other information requests. The assistant recognizes the essence of your question, takes an answer from the most suitable source (Wikipedia, Google, Google pictures) And represents you in a comfortable form.

Weather, Time, Calculator, Sports, News

What time is it? How long is Seoul? What is the weather? Weather forecast for three days in Moscow? Schedule of Spartak matches? Show news!

List examples of requests in this category can be very long and for each of them an asterist can give a worthy answer.

Alarm clocks and reminders

Wake me up tomorrow at seven in the morning. Wake me up in two hours. Remind me in March throw a Christmas tree. Remember tomorrow at three times to call mom.

This is a unambiguous cyler-feature of this application. Now you do not have to open alarm clock, install hours on different twisters, minutes, seconds, give a description, and so on. You just tell the phone with the phone that you need and he immediately understands and remembers it.

Call and Address Book

Call Andrei. Write sms dad.

If you do not like the standard address book, then you can forget about it forever. Just tell the phone with whom you want to talk or send a text message and it connects you immediately.

Navigation

Find the way from Lenin Street to the streets of the world. Where is the library? Show where I live. How to get to Kiev?

Of course, the assistant uses one of the navigation programs installed for you to lay the route. But the ability to set the necessary points and directions in the human language greatly simplifies their use. Interestingly, the assistant has learning abilities. For example, you can tell him where you live, and then at the request "went home!) (I need to say a solid sober voice), he will bring you literally before the entrance.

On this description voice assistant We will finish. And not because its functions are over, not at all. On the contrary, the number of requests recognizable by the assistant is very large and you still have one more amazing opening of his abilities.

And the most pleasant in this program, in addition to free, of course, this is what she really works. When I downloaded it, I expected to see a curious little animal, which serves rather for the damp and after will certainly be thrown into the basket. Actually Assistant It introduces a well-workable and extremely convenient innovative interface to interact with your smartphone.