What You Can Do with Voice Actions

Here are the commands you can issue with Voice Actions, along with how to use them:

Note

If you dictate a search term that is also the name of a contact, the Droid 2 opens the contact, rather than searching the Web.

Voice Actions does a very good job of converting your speech into text when you dictate an email or text message. But it’s not perfect. So you might be leery of using Voice Actions to dictate a message, worrying that when you dictate, “I love you, too,” the message sent will be, “I move YouTube.”

Not to worry. Before you send a text message or email, you get a chance to edit the text. As explained earlier, the Droid 2 displays your message first, giving you the opportunity to edit, send, or cancel.

Voice Actions uses its own email and text messaging app, rather than the Droid 2’s usual ones. With good reason—Voice Actions knows that it might not be able to recognize every word properly, and its email and texting apps have an editing tool that takes that into account.

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When the message is displayed, the app shows in blue any words that it believes it may not have understood. Tap the word, and a list of possible other matching words appears underneath. Tap any matching word to have it replace the original.

Three icons also appear—a keyboard, an X, and a microphone . Tap the keyboard icon, and you can type the word you want to replace the original word. Tap the microphone icon, and you can speak the word again. Tap the X to simply delete the word.

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From the editing screen in the email app, you can also edit any part of the message, not just words in blue. You can add a subject, CC, and BCC recipients as well.