Easily call or text your loved ones with Voice Search’s new feature

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Published 11 Feb 2014

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The people I call the most in my life are as follows: my boyfriend, my mom, my dad. Rather than shout out their names, however, now Voice Search lets me identify them by their relationship to me.

In a + blog post, announced a Voice Search update with a new feature that lets you pull up a contact just by shouting it out—after you set it up first, of course. It works with a variety of family members, including siblings, grparents, cousins, nieces nephews. In-laws step-relatives don’t seem to work yet, but boyfriends girlfriends do!

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You should have the feature now, since it’s part of ’s backend services associated with Voice Search.