Car Home and Voice Search on Nexus One

Pt. 8 of 10 | 3:27 |

Nexus One - the Google Phone video tutorial

Thursday January 21, 2010

Eyes on the road and hands upon the wheel. We continue our

in-depth look at the Nexus One Google Phone

by delving into the Car Home and Voice Search features. With these, you can do some limited phone tasks, all without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road. This is increasingly important as more and more jurisdictions create

hands-free driving legislation

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Voice searching:

- Tap the microphone in the pre-installed Google search widget to enter voice search mode.
OR
- Tap the magnifying glass Search softkey to enter search then tap the microphone icon.
OR
- Tap and hold the magnifying glass Search softkey to enter voice search mode immediately.

- Speak your search terms in a clear voice. Voice search is pretty good at figuring out what you said.

- Interesting fact: The speech recognition tech in voice search has been honed largely by people using the GOOG-411 service.

Driving mode:

- Tap the Car Home icon.

- If you use Car Home a lot, it might be an idea to drag it onto your home screen.

- Car Home gives you big button access to things you might want to do while driving.

- The Voice Search button allows you to do many things hands free. Phrases like "Call Andrew Moore-Crispin" or "navigate to home" or "navigate to 96 Mowat Avenue" will produce the intended result.

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