Google Voice Access

Google announced yesterday, through the 'Disclosure and Initiatives' channel of its official blog, the launch of the new application called 'Google Voice Access. This application, which we can now use in Spanish, comes to make life easier for the millions of people in the world who suffer from motor and mobility problems. Tasks such as sending photos, opening applications or sending text messages are quite a feat for quadriplegics with immobilized hands.

Google develops an app for people with motor problems

Hands-free technology comes to the aid of all those people with mobility problems. The app is now free to download on the Android Play Store and does not contain any . In addition, its installation file is very light, since it only weighs 4.6 MB, so you can download it whenever you want without waiting to be connected to WiFi.

Although it is true that, at the moment, in Spanish it is not going as well as we could hope for, we can send voice commands and, more or less, in most cases, it understands us . When we activate Google Voice Access, we will first complete a simple tutorial, and we will activate the necessary permissions in the accessibility section for it to work. From now on, whenever we say 'Ok Google', each item on the screen will be accompanied by a number.

Thus, the user will only have to say numbers aloud for the phone to open the corresponding accesses, applications, functions, etc.One thing that has been impossible for us to achieve is, once we are in an application or menu, that is, off the desktop, we return to it. Another example of a function that we have not been able to guess is when, for example, on Twitter, we want to scroll down the screen, since there is no number that corresponds to this function.

Voice Access, an application to polish

These very specific commands, like going to the start menu or scrolling up or down, work well in English and if we have the system language in our telephone thus configured. Even so, there are certain commands in English that, even if we have the language set to Spanish, you will be able to understand. We have tried going backwards by saying 'Go back' and our phone has understood us perfectly.

Everything will depend, of course, on our pronunciation and how the Google Intelligent Assistant understands us.In Spanish we don't know what to tell it to send us to the Home screen, as we have already said, and sometimes it has been difficult for us to make the phone work normally, as if we were holding it in our hands. We assume that in future updates they will fix this and other problems.

Obviously, this function can also be of great help to people who, at that moment, cannot use their hands, such as example when we are cooking. However, Google has set its sights on all those people with serious illnesses and injuries that have caused them to lose mobility or that for them is quite an odyssey.

On the Google support page you have a wide variety of commands that you can try to make your phone work only with your voice, although, for now, it is in English.The best thing you can do, however, is to download and install the application and try it yourself with the commands in Spanish, waiting for Google to release an appropriate update.