Google Voice Search Revisited [2013]
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- Here is a brand new demo with improved Google voice searches in the last 12 months (35 queries shown). You can now check business hours, get nutritional facts, ask for traffic, create reminders or even go through your albums to find those precious photos of your cat!
Combined with Google Now, the Knowledge Graph and better natural language understanding, search is becoming smarter, conversational and more useful with every update. As Google integrates more products such as Gmail, Calendar and Google+, you can see how things are starting to come together.
You can try these on Android or iOS, though keep in mind some of these commands do not work on iOS yet.
For other examples of voice commands on Android, you can watch my previous videos from last year:
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If you like the last portion of the video with utter! beta, you can download the app from the Play Store:
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About Google Now:
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About the Knowledge Graph:
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FAQ
What device is that? A: Nexus 4
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What ROM are you using? A: Paranoid Android 3.99 (Android 4.3)
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Where's the status bar? A: I recorded the Nexus 4 in full screen mode; a feature of Paranoid Android.
Was this demo edited? A: Portions of the recording were edited to fit into categories, but each query is shown as is (no alterations to speed).
What's that wallpaper in the beginning? A: Ocean Live Wallpaper
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What was the alarm app? A: Timely Alarm Clock - and it's beautiful!
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What app did you use for hotel rooms? A: Hotel Tonight
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How do I enable hotword detection even when I'm not in Google Now? A: Unless you have a Moto X, utter! can do this. You can customize your own hotword (mine was simply 'Google'), or say 'Okay Google' to trigger a Google voice search anywhere on your phone.
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Those commands don't work on my device! A: If you have problems hearing voice answers (but you see answer cards), make sure to check your language settings within the app and ensure it matches your system language. In app settings, next to voice answers, enable "always speak". Also check your media volume (different from ringtone/notifications). If you don't see answer cards and get ordinary results instead, check whether the Knowledge Graph is available in your language and local Google domain. If it's not, go to Settings and check the box to search using google.com by default.
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I just finished a new demo with improved Google voice searches in the past year. There are 35 queries, including asking for business hours, nutritional info, traffic, creating reminders or even pulling specific photos from your albums on Google+. In the last segment, I added a bonus glimpse of *utter! beta* for Android.
Combined with Google Now, the Knowledge Graph and better natural language understanding, search is becoming smarter, conversational and more useful with every update. As Google integrate more products such as Gmail, Calendar and Google+, you can see how things are starting to come together.
This is just a continuation of my other videos from last year. If you haven't seen my old videos, they are: [ How to impress your friends: 40+ voice searches on Jelly Bean ] and [ Follow-up: 20 more voice searches on Jelly Bean ].
The device is a Nexus 4 running Paranoid Android 3.99 (4.3) in full-screen mode. To replicate hot-wording, you can install utter! beta here (unless you have a Moto X!) - it's a great example of what's possible on Android.
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Thanks for watching!
Great video!
I watched it before I even saw this post. I'm subscribed. You definitely showed some things I didn't know. I didn't realize Gooogle Now could answer questions in context to previous questions.
Thanks Shauna Morgan (AhmazinSKM). I really appreciate (and glad to know it's helpful). I still remember your Nexus 7 unboxing! ;)
Lol, oh God noooo! I still suck at unboxing... That was a hard box to open... I love the spoof video though of all the horrible unboxings...
Great video! Thank you for publicizing these awesome features!
I did not realize how sophisticated this had gotten! This is worth watching even if you are not a phone fan.
Honestly I'm using this app and it saves me a lot of time typing, you can also talk to do things text messages and its amazing accuracy.
I'm loving how technology/software is developing.
Google has worked on image recognition for the past few years. It can identify features, places or characteristics in images indexed on the web. Since May 2013, that technology has been extended to photos you upload to Google+. Without any tags, Google will try to recognize things in your photos, such as landmarks, sunsets, animals, flowers, food, etc. Pool was another great example to demo. Image recognition is not perfect yet, but it's getting better all the time.
Answering translation related questions in other languages at around 7:20 really impressed me.
Great video showing the designed functionality of voice search. All those commands worked perfectly in a room that is acoustically dampened. Add some ambient noise and do them all again. :)
great video.... i have been using android and only scratched the surface with google now.... this video just opened my eyes to endless possibilities.
It's a built-in feature of Utter for Android. 'I parked my car' will save your location in the background. 'Find my car' or 'Where's my car' will open the most recent saved location in Street View/Maps.
Google Music was redesigned in May 2013 and the interface is much better than before. I haven't tried Now Playing, it may have more features but I would definitely switch back and see if it's good enough as your music app.
Thanks @ShinchanPyara . The search you see at 7:24 uses automatic image recognition on photos you've uploaded to Google+, whether private or public. They don't need to be tagged and they don't necessarily have to be geo-coded (though tags and locations do help Google identify things such as landmarks). The queries work for you and only you (log in required). At the moment, some queries work better than others. Examples include food items, flowers, animals, famous landmarks, sunsets.
You can replicate this with utter! beta from the Play Store. It has a 'wake up phrase' feature. When enabled, you can say 'wake up' or choose your own hot word to activate utter, or 'OK Google' to go straight to Google voice search. Keep in mind that utter is in beta, and because it constantly listens in the background, it uses quite a bit of battery. That said, it's very useful in certain situations, such as driving.
for me, the most impressive think is the follow up questions, like the one with thanksgiving dates or the translate in japanese...
smart
Unlike time and location reminders, you can't create a search reminder directly by voice. For now, search reminders only work on some results found within the Knowledge Graph. For example, if you search 'Coldplay', you will see a card and an option to be reminded about 'new releases'. You can also try: an actor or director (for new movies), a popular TV show (for new episodes), an upcoming movie (for release date), a holiday, or some authors (for book releases). This will get better with time.
It's Google Play Music. You can use it with All Access (subscription), cloud storage or local storage, or even all three.
Hi. To use a hotword with Utter, open the app, go to Settings, then swipe to the 'Advanced' panel. Tap on 'Wake up configuration'. Enter a wake up phrase (mine was simply 'Google' but you can choose anything you want). Swipe back to 'Settings', then enable 'Wake-up-phrase'. Utter will now listen in the background for the hotword. If you say 'Okay Google' at any time, Utter will wake up, but your voice search will be handed over to Google automatically.
Thanks. I'm helping my Auntie learn her new tablet. But I also learned the continuous questions on the same subject feature. Thanks again.
Awesome stuff! The Great Divide is one of my favorite songs.
How did you get "where's my car working?"
This is an excellent video, thanks!
These specific commands were removed in version 2.5 (May 2013). 'Scan this barcode' and 'Take a picture' no longer work at this time, but hopefully, something better is on the way.
Follow up questions are fantastic !
Thanks for a great video!!
ads are often still great results. It just means someone is paying to gave their service placed
This feature comes with utter! beta on Android. 'I parked my car' saves your current location in the background. 'Where's my car' opens that location in Street View/Maps.
Omg, this is amazing! We dont use 2% of these commands!
The awkward moment when google search can find the Apple Store inside a mall, but Apple Maps can't even find the mall.
christ seriously? It looks so damn good, i had switched to Now Playing a while back because i found google's music app to be kinda meh, but now im thinking of switching back.
Wow, thats amazing how you can get the phone to do all these stuff :D
Wow, great video! Learned some things even I as a Google Android fan did not know. Thanks.
I wish all these things worked worldwide
Blew my mind. I didn't know you could do all this hahah
Hi. Assuming you're using US English on Android, check the following in the Google Search app: (1) Language should be English, preferably US. (2) Speech output set to 'Always speak'. (3) Privacy & accounts > Search on google.com should be selected (instead of local domain). (4) Privacy & accounts > Personal results should be enabled. Additionally, some of these commands require that Location reporting be turned on. Let me know if it works.
That's Ocean Live Wallpaper. It's free on the Play Store.
thanx dude for all those FAQs
Tried asking the same questions in spanish and it failed miserably...Only 4 of 35 and even failed to activate with ok google, bravo!
Great job by the Google team !
@Jean-Louis Nguyen : Wondering how does the personal search work (Ref - 7:38), how does Google discover "the pool" - do I need to tag my photos with the word "pool in Amsterdam", or Google uses image recognition ?
I hate when Google displays ads before results. Like when You searched for pool or flights. That reminds us that ads are more important that results.
It's a shame it doesn't work on my galaxy s4, which is in Portuguese. I changed the language settings and stuff to no avail. I think I'll have to stick to the s voice. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Would be great if Facebook tapped into the voice search features as well.....
This is simply _spectacular_!
Noel Y specifically Google Voice *Search*. Yes, Google Voice is the voip service, but there is no such thing as Google Speak. Google itself calls this "Google Voice Search ".
Great video. How did you launch search from the launch screen by saying "OK Google?" Ref 0:55. I'm using Paranoid Android 3.99.
Amazing! Hope it will work that way in german too...
That was beautiful and reminded me to use it more often! Thank you :D
They need to bring all this features and more to Mexico. :(
Yes, but still... Ads are ads. I would prefer to see them after the result, because this way it looks like Google is not sure about his results. Like "we know what You mean, but this might be even better".
Never happened to me that and ad was better that something I really searched for. I understand it's their living, but... Well... It sort of get's in the way.
You have to set the phone to English language. From there, everything will work as in the video.
That's a crazy wallpaper at the 0:51 mark. What are you using?
0:15 Old answering sound
@jean-louis Nguyen question bro, do you know how to create a daily reminder without going into the calendar app and changing the frequency manually?
Jus' awesome! Had no idea about some. Thanks :)
Thanks for this. Again.
Some things don't work for me: "Show me pictures of my cat" returns images of stranger's cats instead of my own pictures. Reminders based on location have never triggered. They show up as "upcoming" in the 'Reminders' tab of Google Now, even after I've come and gone from the specified locations.
But it did fail at your request to bring up YOUR photos, unless they were your photos (wasn't clear at all).
Amazing video.. 7:05
Brilliant video!
I want this now!
soo many thanks I'll try it
When you tell Google to call, how do you adjust the delay? Mine takes like up to 30 seconds to call.
I didn't even know I could do half of that stuff
You should make an update after recent update.
the command "play you are not alone" not work,google simply search but there is the song in google play on my phone,sad :'(
Hey, I'm curious how did Google know it was your cat? Was it the name of an album, or was it some sort of image recognition?
Google runs image recognition on photos you've uploaded to Google+, both private and public. The algorithm can recognize objects, places, animals as well as text (OCR). The word 'cat' doesn't have to be in the album name. Personal search results only work for you, when you're logged in. You can also turn this option off. When used in conjunction with Auto-Backup on Android, it's a great way to have your photos organized without any intervention!
Whoa! Niceee
Is there a way to get google to send a text message without having to hit "send message" on the screen after you dictated it?
Hey Jean, I noticed when you used the hot word with Utter it didn't go into Google search it just did it in the background. How you set this up?
I will try it for fun on my Nexus 4, too bad the most things won't work in the netherlands.
A lot of these don't work on my Nexus 4.
"Where Am I?" doesn't pull up a map of where I am even though I have GPS turned on.
Of course
How did you change your hotword from OK Google to just Google?
That's AWESOME !
Genious laugh 8:11
Love it!
Soo many things I'm about to try lol :')
Impressive!
Fabulous Google :)
I really want to know how to really not touch anything at all like the end of your video
I have a nexus 4 on 4.3 and I cannot get half of these searches to work, am I missing something?
Does this version of the search software work with any Android version, like an "older" JellyBean 4.1.2 or something like that?
I have tried this on my device, but even after I set the voice recognition language to English/US (assuming these features aren't yet available in German), it still didn't recognize any of the queries I tried, but instead showed me web search results most of the time.
Thanks
great vid btw ;)
How can you only say google hand free and its automatically open goole voice???
I have an samsung galaxy s4
A lot of these conversational ones do not work for me. Why is that?
How can i activate voice on my s3? i can use google now but i got no answers.
how do you activate voice search just by saying 'google'? i cant seem to figure it out. :/
nexus 4 with 4.3 here...i can get all voice commands to work, but when I say "scan barcode" nothing happens. anyone else experience this?
Impressive
what music player is that at the end?
I can't seem to be able to search for my pictures! I'm in UK. Is that the issue?
how is ur google now loading bar moving so fast?
Works that good only in english.
SO much of this doesn't work in the UK! ~Nexus 4 owner
Wow
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How's he seeing Google to activate voice search?
how did it know you were in a pool?!?!
WOOOW
I want Jarvis voice
this is google speak not google voice. google voice is the voip phone service
Ha in a nexus 4 with paranoid android
Bahaha. Nice.
Does #SIRI do this?
Omg 😢