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“Note To Self” Voice Action in Google Search App Should Create New Tasks

In yesterday’s press conference, Google announced its ”Just Speak It” feature for Android 2.2, a new set of voice commands that allow you to perform more actions such as sending text messages, emails, calling businesses, and leaving notes.

The new voice actions have amazing accuracy.  I was sending text messages and emails, all by voice input all day.  There’s one thing I wish were different though.  The “note to self” voice action currently composes an email to yourself with the note being the body of the email. 

Vocie ActionVoice Action

Instead, I feel Google should have tapped into the Gmail Tasks functionality and create new tasks as the notes.  That would be more useful, IMO.

If you’re a froyo user and haven’t already downloaded the update to get these new voice actions, use the QR code below (provided by Google).

Voice Search Search Widget




Note: This post was dictated using Android’s speech-to-text functionality on my Nexus One.

About Sufian Siddiqi

Sufian is the co-founder of HardwareGeeks.com. He is an entrepreneur and enthusiast of all-things web residing in Southern California and enjoys technology, the outdoors, reading, and his family. His current daily driver is a Motorola Bionic.

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