When you’re viewing the Google Now screen, you don’t have to touch anything. Just say “Google.”
NOTE To detect when you say “Google” to launch Voice Search or Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound picked up by your Sero 7’s microphone in intervals of a few seconds or less. The sound is immediately discarded after analysis and is not stored on the device or sent to Google servers.
Using Voice Actions
Speak the Voice Action you want to use. Here are some typical examples: 
“Set alarm for 8:30 a.m.”
“Send email to Marcus Foster. Subject: Coming tonight? Message: Hope to see you later.”
“Navigate to Mike’s bikes in Palo Alto.”
As you speak, Voice Search analyzes your speech and initiates the action.
If Voice Search doesn’t understand you, it lists a set of possible meanings. Just tap the one you want.
Some Voice Actions, such as “send email” and “note to self,” open a panel that prompts you to complete the action by speaking or typing more information.
Tap any text already entered in the panel to add or edit the text by typing.
To speak text instead of typing, first tap the Microphone key 
near the bottom left of the
Tap underlined words or phrases or drag across multiple words to view a list of alternate transcriptions, or to edit by speaking or typing.
When confident that the transcription is accurate, Voice Search displays transcribed words as regular text. Words or phrases for which it has provided alternate transcriptions are underlined.
Tap a button at the bottom of the window to add any optional fields (you can also speak the name and content of any of these fields in your original voice action).
When you’re done, tap the button appropriate to complete the action, such as Send.
Voice Actions Commands
You can search and control your Sero 7 with the following Voice Action commands.
Say | Followed by | Examples |
Words you want to search for |
| “bike shoes” |
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“Map of” | Address, name, business name, | “Map of Golden Gate Park, San |
| type of business, or other | Francisco.” |
| location |
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“Directions to” or “Navigate to” Address, name, business name, type of business, or other destination
“Directions to 1299 Colusa Avenue, Berkeley, California” or “Navigate to Union Square, San Francisco.”
Contact name |
| “Mike LeBeau” (opens Mike’s contact |
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| card) |
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“Go to” | Search string or URL | “Go to Google.com” |
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“Send SMS” or “Send Text” | “To” & contact names, “Message” | “Send text to Hugh Briss, message, I |
| & message text (speak | can’t wait to show you my new shoes, |
| punctuation) | period” |
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“Send email” | One or more of: | “Send email to Hugh Briss, subject, |
| “To” & contact names, “Cc” & | new shoes, message, I can’t wait to |
| contact names, “Bcc” & contact | show you my new shoes, period.” |
| names, “Subject” & subject text |
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| “Message” & message text (speak |
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| punctuation) |
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“Note to self” | Message text | “Note to self: remember the milk” |
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