How To Assign A Nickname To Your Android Contacts

How to Assign a Nickname to Your Android Contacts

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Published 10 May 2016

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Relationship status isn’t just for your social network. If you train your voice commands to know who your wife, daughter, boyfriend, or boss is. Then a call or text is just a straightforward voice command away. You’ll be able to say, Ok, text my sister, call my grandmother, or email my boss to perform that action. A help article has a list of the nicknames you can use. Launch the app, or if you’ve enabled voice detection from any screen. Say Ok and say a nickname for one of your contacts.

Touch the checkmark button then the contact is assigned. If it doesn’t recognize the name first, spell it out one letter at a time. I had to do that in my example instead did a search for Connor Kain. The voice commands work with some popular messaging apps as well. You can send a Hangouts message if you prefer an OTT message.

teach 2 — Dictate or type your message once you launch it with a voice command.

It won’t work on some third-party apps, if a preferred platform isn’t supported. Keep trying, as more developers should enable this over time. You can reverse the process when relationships change. If someone is no longer your boss, boyfriend, or another status. You can say, Ok, Richard is not my boss and will remember the change. This feature is available in the app and set to English.