Conversations with your apps in Android M – Android World

It’s been over a week since Google at Google I / O gave a taste of Android M. In addition, we have missed a line for which we had previously Posts see appear: the ability apps operate fully with speech. This function will, at least partly, still appear in Android M.

Voice Interactions

With Voice Interaction, a feature that is new in Android M, developers can make their apps interviews conduct with users. In the video you can find at the bottom of this article, a demonstration is given of the new opportunities. The picture below shows an example of interaction from the video. Google Now gives the command “Play music on TuneIn ‘and the app responds with a question.”? What genre

After having answered the corresponding genre is played on demand. Such interactions with apps had basically been possible on previous Android versions, but has been made significantly easier for developers. As a developer, you do give up only a question with a list of possible answers, and Voice Interactions does the hard work.

Voice Actions

Voice Actions have long been part of Android, but are becoming increasingly important. Since early this year, developers can link actions to their apps. For example, a camera app to identify themselves as such, so that the user gets to choose which app to use when he gives the voice command “Take a picture.” Some application developers can also use special voice commands. These developers of popular apps can register their own commands. Consider the muziekherkenningsapp Shazam a song that users can let recognize by saying “Ok Google, Shazam this song.

Voice Actions is a feature of Google itself, not the Android platform. That means that this feature is not part of the open source version of Android and manufacturers that use Google version of Android will have to develop their own solution. The framework for Voice Interactions other hand, is part of Android. The settlement of the speech and the interface does Google own, but because manufacturers can plug their own implementation. An example might be the technology behind the impressive alternative digital assistant Hound thereof.

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Availability

The new call mode of Google are part of Android M will be included with the release of the new Android version that will follow in the third quarter of this year. The custom voice actions are partially already available for Android versions since Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and the next time will be extended. Since last week, there are more opportunities to use voice commands in Dutch and opportunities in the future will only increase.

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