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Google announces 'Voice Actions' on mobilephones

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San Francisco, Aug 13: Google announced the launch of 13 'Voice Actions' on mobile phones.

The new voice actions will allow the user to perform different actions on mobile through voice commands. The new applications will be pre-installed on Droid 2 and will available via the Android Market for 2.2 devices.

Google announced 13 voice actions, including the search option. The voice command 'send message to [person] [message],' will allow the users to send messages.

Voice Actions will also help to set alarms, go straight to a website and speak addresses or locations for directions. 'Find music' command is particularly interesting and works across multiple apps, looking for tunes across the web.

'Note to self' will creates a message to reminder for user later.

Right now the Voice Actions are available in English only but plan to support Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese also.

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