Okay Google What is a poop. "Google Okay" or a full guide to Android voice control. Installation on a PC or Laptop
Not so long ago voice search It seemed for us with something fantastic and unthinkable. Now everything is quite simple. Search Okay Google - You can use the browser Google Chrome., as well as mobile devices running Android and iOS.
With the help of searching for Okay Google, you can easily find the information you need, lay the routes and make notes and reminders. For this you just need to pronounce: "Okay Google - what will be the weather tomorrow?". And after a couple of seconds it will be displayed on the screen all the necessary information.
Everything else, thanks to the improved system, the service can produce not only in the information links, but also to respond to a voice to some requests.
How to use OK Google
Installation on different kinds Devices
To use the Google Okay service on personal Computer, It is enough to make a few simple actions:
- Install last version google browser Chrome.
- Go to personal Area And in the settings, activate the "Enable voice search by the Google team".
- Check the internet connection and microphone performance.
- Say "Google" and the desired command.
How to use the Google Okay on android devices:
- Go to installed application Google.
- Say the Google Okay in the microphone and click on the available microphone icon.
- If the recognition command is enabled on the device, then you may not even enter the application.
For iPhone devices and iPad need to produce similar actions, as in the case of android system. If you are using the Google Okay on later devices, such as iPhone 4 or iPad 2, then you can use this command in an absolutely any application section.
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Sample teams: How much time, go to the site, currency exchange rate, etc.
To make changes to the voice input parameters on Andoid devices, iPad and iPhone you need to enter google app And go to the settings. Android is the corresponding menu for apple devices You need to click on your photo in the upper left corner. We choose the "Voice Search" item and make your changes.
Google service is very convenient for use, especially if your hands are busy. It is constantly updated, and improvements are made. If earlier it was available only for English-speaking users, now we can be content with it. The "Okay Google" service can not only recognize the teams and give answers to them, but also to keep a short dialogue and perform some requests. Also available chains of requests and clarifications. It is possible to set an alarm clock, reminding the application start and make calls.
Google Corporation began its activities as a search engine, and on this moment Search for information using mobile devices and 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 ease 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, all the newest developments from the "Corporation of Good" are introduced on the Nexus line devices. 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, a simple Google search and voice search answers one application, this is Google. It is included standard applications from google companies 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 consumption, which is only engaged in the background, listening to all surrounding sounds on the subject 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 search for information, of course, the most important google function 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: " message Whatsapp 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. It may offer to open the site of the organization or make a call, open a Facebook profile or watch Twitter Celebrity Account, 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 call one click detailed information About 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.
With the help of a tasque, you can make many actions: run applications, control the sound, run scripts, manage the screen, carry out manipulations over the files, press the buttons on the screen, manage Media, make the HTTP Get and POST requests 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, you must enable the Google Now Integration item inside AutoVoice. 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. Joaian Diaz (Joao Dias), the developer of all AUTO * -Plagins, is also an addition for a computer, which allows you to integrate mobile devices through 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 are 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 the following 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 is a Russian-speaking voice assistant of a kind, which combines all the advantages of the applications described 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 at certain efforts and even 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.
In the article, let us consider in detail what kind of Google Okay, is there any real benefit from the assistant. In addition, we will tell how to install and use the function ok Google on the computer.
About Appendix OK, Google
Google Okay feature helps the smartphone owner to manage the gadget without hands. Taking the necessary voice team, for example, "Okay Google, what is the weather today?" You will quickly get the answer. For this you do not need to write search query In the browser - the assistant will find information instead of you. To search for information, the assistant analyzes the user's location, frequent Internet queries and visited pages.
What is Okay Google? The latest product of the company - electronic Google Assistant presents an improved voice search. At the time of appearance, this option was called "Google Now". Assistant answers were only in text format. Now you get a voice answer.
What kind system requirements It should be executed for proper work Assistant:
- android version is not lower than 5.0;
- memory of RAM is not less than 1.5 GB;
- version "Google" application 6.13 and newer.
Set up parameters
How to find Okay Google? In new assemblies Android browser With the built-in voice assistant is pre-installed on devices "from the box". If there is no one browser on your phone, you will need from the service " Play Market.”.
After installing the browser, go directly to setting the assistant parameters. For example, use the model phone Motorola. G5 Plus:
- In the "Settings" menu in the "General" section, activate the "Text Transformation" option.
- In the Synthesizer Speech, select Russian.
- Put the Switches OK Google voice search and "speech recognition" in an active position.
- In the "Search on Phone" field, place flags near the "browser", "Contacts", "applications" to work worked with all services.
- Mark the "Follow the locked screen" option.
- Click "OK".
Functions ok google on android
Interacting with the system, search by Google performs many functions. Below, we present a list of assistant features:
- Get the route using the Google Maps navigator.
- Calculate any amount or interest.
- Send a message or call both Messenger and Mobile Operator Number.
- Put a reminder by specifying the time and date alert.
- On request, opens applications, finds a video on YouTube or a song in Play Music. Enough to say the Google Okey, turn on and the name to open the file.
- Suggest the weather, time.
Communication Assistant finishes the word "please", even if you did not say "Thank you."
Options Okay Google
Now we will tell about how to manage the options of a virtual assistant.
- View and delete search history
To view and clear the story, follow these actions:
- go to "Settings", select "Google Account";
- select "Data and Personalization";
- in the "Actions and Chronology" item, click "My Actions" and "Select the Remove Set";
- in the "Delete by date" item, set the time interval or select "All Time" and click "Delete".
- Turning off the command
To turn off voice activation:
- Enter the "Settings" utility.
- Remove the tick "OK, Google Recognition".
- Elimination of possible errors
An outdated version of android or no updates for the application do not work the helper in normal mode. Download updated software package And install the assistant again. - Restrict the actions of the utility
For tips to appear only on request in the browser window or in the open application:
- in the "Settings" of the program, select "Voice Search";
- go to "OK, Google Recognition", remove the "Always Enabled" and "on any screen" marks.
Where to download Google app with assistant
The application is loaded from the Platform "Play Market":
- In the search bar, write the name of the utility.
- Select the program and click "Set".
Another way to add an assistant to a smartphone is to update Android OS to revisions 5.0 and higher. After updating the assistant will automatically appear.
How to use Google Assistant
To start working with an assistant, you first need to activate voice activation - "Voice Match".
- Open the installed application and at the bottom of the page, click the "More" button (three horizontal strips).
- Go to the "Settings" section and select "Voice Enter".
- In the parameter block "Voice Match", transfer all the sliders in active position (highlighted in blue).
What to do to include assistant? You need to say the start command "Okay, Google".
Main Commands for "Google Assistant"
In this section of the articles, we have prepared a selection of popular queries for a personal assistant on thematic blocks:
- Local news.
"Will it rain today", "where to drink coffee", "which bus goes to school." - Communicate with relatives.
"Call sisters", "write a message mom: how are you? I will come soon". - "Surfy" on the Internet.
"Open My Page VKontakte", "Tell me latest news"," Find a song ".
Installing an assistant on a PC or laptop
In the first way, we use the "Play Market" emulator. The program is called "BlueStacks 3":
- Load the emulator and install the program.
- On the start page Choose the "My Applications" tab at the top, then the "System" folder.
- Open the "Play Market" and write the name of the browser "Chrome" in the search bar;
- Next to the program, click "Set" and configure as described above.
- double click eXE file Run the installation;
- click "Start Installation";
- click "Next", then put the "Add Python to Wednesday Variables" marks;
- click "Set".
- after that, go to the "Projects" page in the "Google Cloud Platform" console;
- click "Create Project" at the top;
- name the project "My Google Assistant" and click OK.
Advantages and disadvantages of the program
But it happens that the assistant incorrectly recognizes the voice and gives the wrong information. Therefore, you need to create a request.
Analogs of Okay Google
At the end of the article, we give a list of programs with functions similar to the "Google OK" virtual assistant:
- "Yandex.alis."
- Apple Siri developers.
- Cortana from Microsoft.
- Amazon alexa.
Using the OK's voice command, Google can be executed online and manage other functions. Android 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. It is in the upper left corner of the 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 Google Play application store and find an application with the name "Google" (Yes, this application is just called Google) and update it by clicking on the "Update" button.
What can I use the voice control of OK Google? Voice control allows you to perform many typical for mobile device Action without your use. 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.
Hardworking developers of the operating system Android constantly make a variety of innovations and stably keep up with the times. So now, the interesting and convenient voice function "Okay Google, Find ..." is available to all owners of smartphones and tablets.
In general, Okay Google, Find is a new voice search, which is using the right teams and without use. on screen keyboard Can find all the necessary information. And after some improvements to perform others useful functions In your phone, making it very similar to Apple's Siri analogue.
But first things first. To work correctly, you need to install it and configure it. It is not at all difficult, but you need to accurately follow the instructions and complete all the steps to the end.
What does that require
The very name of the function brings to the fact that Google plays a latter role here. And it is true. At the very beginning, you must install the original application from Play Market Googlefrom Google Inc (download). It is free, installed quickly and simple. Then we carry out its activation. To do this, you need to enter your account, that is, the mail google (ends on [email protected]) and the password for it.
Very often when buying a gadget on android Google already installed. It should be verified correctness and relevance account, as well as update the version of the application. Log in Play Market, find in search need app, go to it and click on the Refresh key. Without this minor little things, all installation of Google Okay, find ... may not take place.
You should also consider another important fact. This voice search is available on smartphones with new version Android. On the official website of Google indicates version 4.4, on many sites with useful advice repel from 4.1 and higher. Therefore, in any case, you should try. To open the settings on your phone, find the phone item (usually at the very end of the list). Here will be all information about the device, including the version.
Photo: Find out the version of android Proper setting
Now you can proceed directly to configuring voice search for Android.
Open the settings in the phone menu, find account accounts or accounts. They choose Google, and then find a string called Search. After clicking on it opens new pageon which the Google Okock settings are listed. In this menu item, select voice search, and in it is the recognition of the Okay Google. Now you will find the last setting item in which you want to check the checkbox or checkbox near the Google application.
Photo: Setting up Google Okay Voice search is actually ready to use, but it is necessary to go through the voice recognition procedure. It is standard on both Android devices and other operating systems. Sometimes the first time it is not all possible to do it. Do not despair, the second or third attempt will definitely be successful.
Photo: Setting up Google Okay Now almost everything is already. True, with such standard settings Voice function Okay Google, find ... will search only on the Internet. Also, must be included and active Google Search. In principle, the voice search for varying information is already convenient and practical. But you need to know that the possibilities of voice control can be significantly expanded at the level of the entire phone. In this case, it will be very similar to the analogue of Siri, he is not inferior to her.
There are two ways to do this:
1. In many smartphones during configuration, not only the line "from the Google application", but also "from all applications" appears. By activating it too, the voice search gets access to all phone applications.
Photo: Setting up Google Okay 2. If a additional string Not turned out, Google Corporation has developed an additional application Google Start (download). After loading and activating it, the Google Okay, find it to work with all device applications. And you, in turn, only voice to manage them.
Photo: Google Start 
Photo: Setting up Google Okay It is impossible to set up
Such an annoying problem is not rare. Basically, inattention and hurry becomes the cause of everything. If the Android version is suitable, then you missed one of the important details in the installation.
First make sure B. google versions, it must be updated. This nuance is the same meaning as the Android version (previously explained how to do it).
Then gradually, according to the instructions, check each step setting. Perhaps they missed one of them or forgot somewhere to put a tick. In this case, everything can be corrected by manual adjustment of the settings.
If you did not notice the errors, it is worth installing and setting up from the start. It very often helps. Only this time be extremely attentive.
In the overwhelming number of installation problems, one of these tips always triggers.
How to use
Now there is a real phone personal assistant. Without your unnecessary movements, it will fulfill each request.
To begin with, it is worth tested main teams. Say the phrase "Okay Google", the microphone icon should appear in the search bar, click on it. Now let's say full request "Okay Google, weather in New York" or "Okay Google, find a currency course." A nice voice will answer questions and displays information on the display device for clarity. By the way, in the most last smartphones on the Android voice The default function is installed. That is, you do not need to pronounce the first phrase for activation, just voice your question right away.
If you enrolled competently and wise, by connecting voice control immediately to the whole phone, examples of its use will be much more.
- Set the alarm clock;
- Celebrate events and events in the calendar;
- Draw a list of cases;
- Send messages and make calls (in this case it is necessary to pronounce the name of the contact in the same way as it is written in the phone book);
- Open applications and programs;
- Use the search for any requests through the Internet, etc.
Examples of useful teams
For full access Options for teams are incredibly a lot. You can change the order of words, but to pronounce the phrase clearly and understandable in meaning.
Personal organizer. Installation of reminders, alarm clock, information about upcoming meetings, trips, events, tracking your parcels, activation of photos and video. To recognize tasks, google now must be involved (for reminders and notifications) and mail Gmail. (It comes to the parcels, ticket booking, tables, etc.)
Okay Google remind call mom at 15.30
.... where is my parcel?
.... Install the alarm clock at 7.00
... .When will meet a sister?
.... What is scheduled for Monday on May 1?
... ... Averdie to Google.
... .. apply app ...
... .Fall photos / video (at the same time you need to open the camera) and others.
Calls and messages. It is possible to make calls, send an SMS, listen to voice mail, open the necessary contact information, send emails and publish on social networks.
Okay Google, dial Alexander Petrovich or .... Call dad / dad
....SMS Favorite: Buy Milk
.... Number of phone Igor
.... Electronic message, to whom Alexander Petrovich, theme Birthday, Text Messages Congratulations on your birthday, exclamation mark.
By such an algorithm you can make any other voice commands. The main thing is that they are made through the plays from Play Market, Google Mail or Google search engine.
It will be very convenient to search through google maps And its navigation system. The more sources will be connected, the more can be performed voice search.
Okay Google, listen to Victor Tsoi / What is this song? / Watch the movie Silence Lambs.
Okay Google when Angelina Jolie was born? / Where is the statue of freedom?
.... What movies are shown in the Freedom Cinema / Where is the nearest restaurant?
Experiment with new teams and requests, make your life with modern and easy.
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