Initiating Voice Actions and Voice Search

Miguel611 · 02-22-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by john30308

There is, of course, a separate Voice Dialer app from Google that still works great.

Yes, I also have that set as a widget on my home screen.

boxcar78 · 03-09-2012, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Vance

OK, here is what I did, and it worked fine for me. Somewhere I heard that if you find, download and install the following apk:

VoiceSearch_1.5.apk

This will install and work on the Nexus the way the old app did, as as separate app from the Google search bar. And it worked fine for me.

You can do a search for that exact apk and you should be able to find a place hosting it for download, I just use Chrome to Phone (or Fox to Phone) to right-click and send it straight to my phone, then I just click on it to install it.

Here is the screenshot of it sitting on one of my home screens (I took it off of my bottom bar because I needed that space for stuff I actually used more). At first it had the square icon, like the old one, but then when it updated, I got this nice new round icon:

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Thank you! I grabbed the app of XDA and then updated it from the market. I now have a Voice Search icon in my app drawer on my Galaxy Nexus. I linked it to Go Launcher's "Down Swipe" gesture setting in preferences.