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Use voice control
You can control many of the phone functions with your voice. You can call contacts from the address book, dictate messages and search the internet. Before you can use voice control, you need to select voice control settings.
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Turn on voice control
Tap and hold the Home key.
If you've turned on automatic activation, you can say "Ok Google" to activate voice control.
Use voice control
Say, in your own words, what you would like your mobile phone to do, e.g.: OPEN [application], CALL [contact], SEARCH FOR [information]. It's not necessary to use a specific command for each function.
See more examples
Say "What can you do?" to see more examples of voice control commands.
Return to the home screen
Tap the Home key to return to the home screen.
Tap and hold the Home key.
If you've turned on automatic activation, you can say "Ok Google" to activate voice control.
Say, in your own words, what you would like your mobile phone to do, e.g.: OPEN [application], CALL [contact], SEARCH FOR [information]. It's not necessary to use a specific command for each function.
Say "What can you do?" to see more examples of voice control commands.
Tap the Home key to return to the home screen.
Would you like information for your {device-name}?