Voice actions can send text messages in the same way it can send emails.
For example, you could say “Send email to Bob Smith, subject, Our meeting, message, I’ll be right there.” Voice Actions can be used to send an entire email. For example, you could say “Create a calendar event: Business Lunch in New York, Friday at noon.” You can easily create a calendar event by speaking it. It’s fine if the transcription isn’t perfect, as you can play back the audio later. This creates a note – both in audio and transcribed text – that will be emailed to your Gmail account. You can say something like “Set alarm for 20 minutes from now” or “Set alarm for 7 a.m.”. To quickly set an alarm, say “Set alarm for ”. For example, “Open Gmail” opens the Gmail app. This feature will only get more powerful as Google’s knowledge graph improves. If you search for something Google knows the answer to – like “How many people live on Earth?” – Google will show you the answer to your question and speak it back to you. However, this feature also works hand-in-hand with Google’s new knowledge graph. If you say something like “photos of narwhals”, Google will perform a search for narwhal photos and show them to you. If you say something that Google doesn’t recognize as another voice action, it will perform a simple Google search for it. The most basic – and obvious – of voice actions is as a simple Google Search. You can now say something out loud to perform a voice action. Your phone or tablet will start listening to your voice.