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age location access.
Use your voice on Android
You can speak into your Androi d phone or tablet to search , get
directions, send mess ages, and per form other com mon tasks. To
initiate an action or a searc h using your voice, touc h the Mi-
crophone icon on the Home screen or in th e Google search a pp.
if your device is running A ndroid 4.1 or later, you don’t have to
touch the microphone — just open the Go ogle search app a nd
say “Google.”
IMPOrTANT: To detect when you say “Google” to launch
Voice search or Voice Action s, Google analyzes sound
picked up by your tablet’s m icrophone in inte rvals of a few
seconds or less. The sou nd is immediately d iscarded after
analysis and is not stored on t he device or sent to G oogle.

Turn hotword detection on or off

The ability to trigger a s earch or action by saying “Google”
is called hotword detec tion. To turn it off or on, open the G oo-
gle search app and touch Me nu > Settings > Voice > Hotword
detection.

Voice Search

After you touch the Microp hone icon or say “Goo gle,” Google lis-
tens as you speak and initiate s the search or act ion you describ e.
if Voice search doesn’t un derstand you, it lis ts a set of possible