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Google should have presented its 'Voice Access' feature one year back at the last year's Google I/O conference, however, it never happened. However, as per the latest reports, the organization has at last launched a Voice Access beta application making use of which the users can control several feature elements of their Android smartphone with voice command.
Users can now verbally give commands, for example, 'Open chrome' to open the program or 'go home' to revert back to the handset's home screen. Not at voice apps are same and hence this is what differentiates this voice access beta app that permits a user to give voice commands that can be used from anywhere as a part of the smartphone's interface. Additionally, similar to smart dials, this app too uses number shortcuts to launch a particular feature, for example, A user can speak number '8' in case he wants to fire an application ensuring that the Voice Access app doesn't confuse the pronunciation.
"We recently launched Voice Access Beta, an app that allows people who have difficulty manipulating a touch screen due to paralysis, tremor, temporary injury or other reasons to control their Android devices by voice. 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," said Eve Andersson, Manager, Accessibility Engineering at Google on the company's blog post.
To simplify the downloading process, Google has a committed page for the beta application (at present at v1.0). But, since the app has been downloaded too much by the testers so at present the download page shows that the app currently is not available for download, however, one can expect a global rollout for the same in the future. In the meantime, enthusiastic users who wish to experiment can surely download the Google-signed application from APK Mirror to sideload.
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Apart from the above-said feature, Google has also introduced a new Accessibility Scanner tool for Android platform that allows developers test their application themselves and receive feedbacks in order to improve the accessibility. It must be intriguing for users to know that this new feature is coming as a built-in in the latest Android N Dev. Preview which the company released a while back that was followed by the launching of Android Beta Program as well. Android N beta update now comes with the Vision Settings feature to let users control settings such as magnification, font size, display size, and TalkBack.
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The company also updated its ChromeVox screen reader by releasing a new beta version and side by side also added that its Google Docs also lets users edit, type, copy or insert a table using voice commands, something which originally got introduced in February this year.
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