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Which Trump prevents Huawei from having Google services? Well, Huawei integrates its own services to continue working. What are we left without the Google assistant in the new Huawei phones? Well, the Chinese brand creates its own. This is how Celia arrived, a version of the Google assistant, Siri or Alexa but focused exclusively on Huawei mobiles. It was presented together with the P40, but it is now when it begins to be available in Spanish and in Spain.Here we teach you how to activate it and interact with it to find out what it can do with a single voice command.
Update to EMUI 10.1
This requirement is essential. And it is that Huawei has introduced Celia in the latest version of EMUI, its customization layer on which its mobiles work. So you will need to have your mobile updated to the latest version, the 10.1 This is the list of Huawei terminals that will have, if they do not already have it, this new EMUI version.
- Huawei P40 Lite
- Huawei P40
- Huawei P40 Pro
- Huawei P40 Pro+
- Huawei P30
- Huawei P30 Pro
- Huawei Mate 20
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro
- Huawei Mate 20 RS PORSCHE DESIGN
- Huawei Mate 20 X
- Huawei Mate 20 X (5G)
- Huawei nova 5T
- Huawei Mate Xs
- Huawei P40 lite
- Huawei nova 7i
- Huawei Mate 30
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro
Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G Go through your mobile settings and look for the System and updates section at the bottom of the list. Here you will find the Software update section, where the updates of the EMUI personalization layer appear. Click on Check for updates to try to force a new version to download if you don't already have 10.1.0.
If no update appears, it will only be a matter of time before this version reaches your mobile when it is completely optimized for it. Generally, the new versions land first on the star mobiles. So be patient.
Activating Celia
By default, and even if we update the mobile or it arrives with EMUI 10.1 from the factory, the Huawei assistant is disabled. We must start Celia manually and proactively if we want to have this assistant. So we tell you the steps to do it.
- Click on the option Settings of your mobile.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and find the HUAWEI Assistant section (with an icon of a kind of multicolored marble.
- Within Celia's menu, enter the section AI Voice.
- Here click on the option Voice activation and click Next.
- You must accept permissions for Celia to access phone information, microphone, contacts, location, messages, and call log.
- You will also have to specify the language in which you want Celia to assist you and speak to you.
- After that you will hear Celia's voice indicating some of her functions. But the important thing is that you follow her voice and repeat the command up to three times “hey Celia” Of course, don't be scared by its pronunciation with English phonetics, “ Silia”, also works if you say it in perfect Spanish.
- Press the Done button to finish setting.
In this way Celia will already be available, active and accessible for your doubts and questions.You will have activated the voice consultations, so you can use the command “Hey Celia”, followed by your question to answer a question or perform an action But You can also deactivate this functionality and activate the response through the mobile's on/off button. In that case you will have to keep pressing the button for a second so that the assistant icon appears. That peculiar colored marble. That will mean that it is already listening to your orders. But what can you do?
What Celia can do
At the moment Celia is somewhat shy if we compare her with the most well-known assistants She lacks fluency when interacting with the user and offer those extra points such as humor when telling a joke, having the ability to interact with other connected devices in the house or having a more or less logical conversation.
However, it can be in charge of playing music and video from your mobile, find out the time or set an alarm, create calendar appointments or take notes that you dictate. It can also send SMS messages, make calls, translate words and phrases, tell you the weather or search the Internet. All this with just a simple voice command from you.
