You have an Android phone? You've seen that microphone icon on the onscreen keyboard? When you want to text, as in Google Hangouts or Messaging, give your fingers a rest: press the mic icon and SPEAK your text!
I play my music this way in my car. Over the years, I have made music playlists for my Super Holly stories. But every time I said, "Ok Google, play my Comic Book Code playlist", my phone went to my web browser instead of my phone's playlist. How come?
Spelling! I had named my playlist "_Comic Book Code" because long ago, I wanted that list to show up high on my old Firewire iPod playlist display. Guess what, I do not know how to speak an underscore. I removed the underscores from my playlist names. Now when I speak, my playlist plays.
For a while, my command to "play O Holy Night" (by Bing Crosby) failed because Android turned it into "play Oh Holy Night". One little "h" sent my phone to the web. But I just spoke that command again, and it worked. Either my phone is learning, or I am. (It still won't play Superchicken. Bet you can guess why.)
P.S. I wonder if my character Cal "The Intellectual" Critbert would have this trouble with the Intellecta-car? No, he has a telepathic link to the car. Holly won't have that speaking trouble, but she will get into a punch-the-dashboard argument to the tune of the Hungarian Rhapsody. Watch for that on davemstrom.wordpress.com.
I play my music this way in my car. Over the years, I have made music playlists for my Super Holly stories. But every time I said, "Ok Google, play my Comic Book Code playlist", my phone went to my web browser instead of my phone's playlist. How come?
Spelling! I had named my playlist "_Comic Book Code" because long ago, I wanted that list to show up high on my old Firewire iPod playlist display. Guess what, I do not know how to speak an underscore. I removed the underscores from my playlist names. Now when I speak, my playlist plays.
For a while, my command to "play O Holy Night" (by Bing Crosby) failed because Android turned it into "play Oh Holy Night". One little "h" sent my phone to the web. But I just spoke that command again, and it worked. Either my phone is learning, or I am. (It still won't play Superchicken. Bet you can guess why.)
P.S. I wonder if my character Cal "The Intellectual" Critbert would have this trouble with the Intellecta-car? No, he has a telepathic link to the car. Holly won't have that speaking trouble, but she will get into a punch-the-dashboard argument to the tune of the Hungarian Rhapsody. Watch for that on davemstrom.wordpress.com.