Google Voice Access

2018: Release of the application

At the beginning of October, 2018 Google started the application allowing to manage mobile devices without hands. The program under the name Voice Access is useful to physically disabled people and also those it is as obliges inconvenient to whom to use the smartphone or the tablet by a usual method — for example, drivers who should not distract during driving from the road.

Through Voice Access owners of Android devices can move without use of hands according to the menu, switch applications, change settings, return to the main screen, write and edit messages in messengers and e-mail and also to click and talk to the voice assistant to Google Assistant.

Near each active element of the menu at installed application the digit appears, for the voice choice it is enough to tell "tap" and to give number. 

Voice Access offers more detailed management tools in comparison with other voice commands which you can use on the phone, for example, allowing you to use the voice for clicking buttons and controls in applications and also to scroll and move on the screen — the product manager in division of Google Central Accessibility Team Patrick Clary noted.[1]

The Voice Access application was tested since 2016, and at the beginning of October of the 2018th it became available in the finished option. However, only one language — English is supported by this time. Google promises to add more languages so it is possible to expect recognition of the Russian speech.

Developers address Voice Access to people with  diseases which affect a brain and  the central nervous system, for example: with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, a tremor, etc.^[2]

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