Nexus 7 (2013) Guidebook  

GooGLe NoW & seARCH

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Use your voice on Android

You can speak into your Android phone or tablet to search, get 
directions, send messages, and perform other common tasks. To 
initiate an action or a search using your voice, touch the 

 Mi-

crophone icon on the Home screen or in the Google search app.

if your device is running Android 4.1 or later, you don’t have to 
touch the   microphone — just open the Google search app and 
say “Google.”

IMPOrTANT: To detect when you say “Google” to launch 
Voice search or Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound 
picked up by your tablet’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.

Turn hotword detection on or off

The ability to trigger a search or action by saying “Google” 
is called hotword detection. To turn it off or on, open the Goo-
gle search app and touch Menu > Settings > Voice > Hotword 
detection.

Voice Search

After you touch the Microphone icon or say “Google,” Google lis-
tens as you speak and initiates the search or action you describe. 
if Voice search doesn’t understand you, it lists a set of possible