Do More SMS and E-mail with Google Voice Actions

The latest Google Voice Search on Android is pretty sweet, but it can manage a lot more than Android’s built-in apps that support SMS and e-mail. If you find the “note to self” command as an e-mail weird and prefer to make it a calendar, it requires no extra work to do just that. All you have to do is set up your Google Calendar account to enable GVENT (48368). When you’re done, add GVENT to your contacts as something like Calendar. Afterwards, activate the Voice Actions and say something along “SMS Calendar: Oil Change on Saturday at 9.” Just make sure that you set communications up with GVENT with the phone number you’ll be texting it from, if you want it to send a text message from your Google Voice account. Though this tip seems to be small, it reveals that Google Voice Actions can do more than what is on the surface.

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