Jelly Bean Voice Commands

[gabbott]

"tell me show times for the movie...."

"what is the stock price of ...." and it will speak to to you.

ask it a math problem and it will speak the solution to you. ("what is 5 x 8", "what is the square root of 525"....)

Will speak back conversions... (i.e. "what is 7 inches in centimeteres", "what is 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius", "convert 5 liters to gallons")

"when is sundown/sunrise" will speak back to you the time it will be.

ask it when a holiday is and it will speak back to you when it will be (i.e. "when is Easter")


Wow this is fun

 

[Foyt20]

Does it know "hot-spatcho"? And "Life"?

 

[shaytoon21]

Does it know "hot-spatcho"? And "Life"?

Does it know "joke"?

because siri sure as hell didnt when we tried it on my cousins fruit phone after we saw the commercial.

i loved how it failed and siri gave her ignorant i dunno response. my cousins face dropped with the biggest disappointment.

 

[bmdakin]

I've been playing around with it and it won't seem to perform any actions like sending texts or playing music. Do you need to enable something?

I'm running build number JRN84D

 

[ragnarokx]

"tell me show times for the movie...."

"what is the stock price of ...." and it will speak to to you.

ask it a math problem and it will speak the solution to you. ("what is 5 x 8", "what is the square root of 525"....)

Will speak back conversions... (i.e. "what is 7 inches in centimeteres", "what is 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius", "convert 5 liters to gallons")

"when is sundown/sunrise" will speak back to you the time it will be.

ask it when a holiday is and it will speak back to you when it will be (i.e. "when is Easter")


Wow this is fun

Nice finds! I'm going to add this to the OP if you don't mind

I've been playing around with it and it won't seem to perform any actions like sending texts or playing music. Do you need to enable something?

I'm running build number JRN84D

You can try saying what I said in the 1st post - that worked for me. There isn't any setting to turn on or off, it should just work.

 

[Ytaay]

Maybe if you have a car mount for your device? You can initiate voice commands hands free by saying "Google".

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Alas, it appears your device must be awake and have Google Now up on the screen for the "Google" voice command initiation to work. How cool would it be if there was a secret word, like "Google", or better yet - you record it yourself, to wake up your phone AND put it into Google Now voice command ready mode??

As Larry David would say, "PRIT-TAY...PRIT-TAY....PRIT-TAY....PRETTY GOOD!"

 

[quamdar]

I know it does stuff like height for athletes but what I'd really like to know is if it can return results for stuff like:

-How many RBIs does Joey Votto have this year?
-Who has the most blocks in the NBA?
-Which team is leading the NFC South right now?
-Who is number 87 for the Pittsburgh Penguins?

I'm sure it can answer stuff that involves sports records but I'd use much more often is if it can do current, up to date stats.

 

[ragnarokx]

I know it does stuff like height for athletes but what I'd really like to know is if it can return results for stuff like:

-How many RBIs does Joey Votto have this year?
-Who has the most blocks in the NBA?
-Which team is leading the NFC South right now?
-Who is number 87 for the Pittsburgh Penguins?

I'm sure it can answer stuff that involves sports records but I'd use much more often is if it can do current, up to date stats.

I tried all those and only got normal Google searches. Usually you'll have better luck with more simple, straightforward, and unambiguous questions.

 

[gabbott]

Found a few more that it will speak back at you...

say "time in location" or "what is the time in location" (City/state/country) and it will tell you the local time there

ask it the date in a country

ask it what language is spoken in a country (i.e "language in France")

ask it what the currency is of a country (will speak it and below the card info will give conversion to US dollar)

ask it what the national anthem is of a country

ask it what the capitol is of a country or state

ask it what is the state bird of a particular state (will say it and provide a picture)

ask it what country a city is in

ask when is daylight savings

ask it when a season starts (e.g. spring, summer, etc...)

ask it what time zone a state or country is in (it will speak back the time zone or zones)

ask it to convert currency "what is 1 US dollar in Canadian" or "5 US dollars in euros" or "convert 5 US dollars to yen"

"what is the boiling point of water?"

ask it when is the superbowl / when is the world series

and this one I thought was really cool, ask it when a movie was released... "when was better off dead released?"

ask it who directed a movie.. "who directed Jaws?"

ask it what movies an actor/actress was in



Things that it won't speak back but will give you info on the screen:

ask it the population of a City or Country (it wont speak back but will show population statistics)

ask it what a country's flag looks like

ask it "when is the next baseball game" or say "baseball schedule" it will bring up a MLB schedule



I've gotten some weird looks from the family for talking to my phone so much

The voice recognition is amazing, I can't get it to fail

 

[iviustang50h]

If you ask "do I need an umbrella today," does it locate you properly or think you're in a different city? Yesterday it thought I was in Chicago, and today Washington DC. Bummer...

 

[quamdar]

I tried all those and only got normal Google searches. Usually you'll have better luck with more simple, straightforward, and unambiguous questions.

Yeah, I figured. I knew the voice search would do whether your team won or not that day so thought maybe they had up to date stats too, hehe

 

[BUNK]

PC World did a comparison of Apple's Siri and Jelly Bean's voice commands. Guess which one came out the winner. Check it out here..

Apple Siri Versus Google Jelly Bean: Voice Search Showdown | PCWorld

 

[TechNut79]

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo[/YT]

 

[JoeC44]

Figured I'd ask Google Now some gag questions, expecting not to get any actual answers. I lol'd when I got this:

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C-Town represent!!!

 

[johntimoteo]

what kind of questions do I need to ask to have the travel card show up before i leave to work and after i leave work?

 

[ragnarokx]

what kind of questions do I need to ask to have the travel card show up before i leave to work and after i leave work?

I've been wondering this myself - I've gotten the work card on accident a few times. Try asking for a map of or to navigate to your work address.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[anon(596177)]

I've been wondering this myself - I've gotten the work card on accident a few times. Try asking for a map of or to navigate to your work address.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

I set my home and work locations in latitude, as described in the first post of this thread, and after a day or two the cards are now just automatically showing up at the approximate times I leave my home/work for work/home every day. Pretty nifty if you ask me.

 

[Ichwardort]

all of those commands are still U.S. only right? I switched my language settings to English but still am not able to get any cards at all. :-\

 

[Shadowriver]

all of those commands are still U.S. only right? I switched my language settings to English but still am not able to get any cards at all. :-\

You need to switch languege for Voice Recognition not system languege, those are 2 seperate settings. It should defenetly work since it's same with old voice commends and when i switched voice regonition settings they become avable for me

 

[Crossfire503]

If you ask it for the meaning of the life, the universe, and everything, it will voice reply correctly.