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Google’s Voice Access app lets you control Android devices by speaking

April 12, 2016   Big Data

Google today announced the beta launch of Voice Access, an app that will let people use speech recognition to control Android devices.

While anyone will presumably be able to use it, it’s designed with specific groups of people in mind — specifically “people who have difficulty manipulating a touch screen due to paralysis, tremor, temporary injury or other reasons,” Eve Andersson, manager of accessibility engineering at Google, wrote in a blog post.

“For example, you can say ‘open Chrome’ or ‘go home’ to navigate around the phone, or interact with the screen by saying ‘click next’ or
‘scroll down,’” Andersson wrote.

Google Voice Access Google’s Voice Access app lets you control Android devices by speaking

Above: Google’s Voice Access app.

Image Credit: Google

In launching Voice Access, Google is the latest company in the past few weeks to emphasize what it’s doing in the area of accessibility. Twitter started letting people submit captions for images they tweet out. Facebook enhanced the screen reader for iOS with automatically generated spoken image captions. Microsoft talked about the Seeing AI app at its Build developer conference. And Apple released videos showing how its iPad tablet helps an autistic person communicate with others.

The interesting thing to point out is how much Google has improved its speech-recognition technology, which draws on artificial intelligence. It’s deployed on many millions of Android devices, and last year Google said that its recognition error rate for Google Voice voicemail transcription had gone down by 50 percent.

Google’s Voice Access app now has “enough testers,” according to the link Google provided to try it out. Look for Google to launch the app out of beta in the future.

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