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Voice Action commands

Voice Actions are only supported in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
Say Followed by Examples
"Open" App name "Open Gmail"
"Create a calendar event" "Event description" & "day/date" & "time" "Create a calendar event: Dinner in San Francisco, Saturday at 7:00PM"
"Map of" Address, name, business name, type of business, or other location "Map of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco."
"Directions to" or
"Navigate to"
Address, name, business name, type of business, or other destination "Directions to 1299 Colusa Avenue, Berkeley, California" or
"Navigate to Union Square, San Francisco."
"Post to Google+" What you want posted to Google+ "Post to Google+ I'm going out of town."
"What's this song?"   When you hear a song, ask "What's this song?"
"Scan a barcode" Scan a barcode or QR code to learn more about a product. "Scan a barcode" and hold barcode in front of the device's camera.
"Go to" Search string or URL "Go to Google.com"
"Send email" "To" & contact name,
"Subject" & subject text,
"Message" & message text (speak punctuation)
"Send email to Hugh Briss, subject, new shoes, message, I can’t wait to show you my new shoes, period."
"Note to self" Message text "Note to self: remember the milk"
"Set alarm" "Time" or "for" & time, such as "10:45 a.m." or "20 minutes from now," "Label" & name of alarm "Set alarm for 7:45 p.m., label, switch the laundry"
"Listen to" Play music in the Google Play Music app by speaking the name of a song, artist, or album. "Listen to: Smells Like Teen Spirit"