iPhone’s Voice Control feature can recognize some of your own words.

These days many phones (smartphones, in particular) support the Voice Control feature with which you can mostly dial a call instead of using the keypad. iPhone, a superior device as it is, can do more than just place a call.

To activate Voice Control press and hold the “Home” key on your iPhone for couple of seconds until you hear a beep. If you use a headset (handsfree) you can press and hold the call button for couple of seconds until you hear the beep sound to activate Voice Control. Once you hear the beep sound you are good to speak to your iPhone.

Once activated you can use Voice Control to call a phone contact, dial a number, control music etc. Here are some of the most frequent uses of iPhone’s Voice Control,

Make a Phone Call

Say “call” or “dial” followed by the person’s name as entered on your iPhone Address Book.

If the contact has more than one phone number on the Address Book you can specify which number to call by saying “home“, “work” or “mobile“.

If you just want to dial a number, you can say “call” or “dial” followed by the number.

Sample usage: “Call John Appleseed Work”, “Dial 7175556666″ etc.

Play Music

Say “play” or “play music”.

Play an Album, Artist or Playlist

Say “play” then say “album”, “artist” or “playlist” and the corresponding name. If you said “play artist” then say the name of the artist.

Sample Usage: “Play Playlist Recently Played”, “Play Artist Michael Jackson”, “Play Album Thriller”

Pause Music

Say “pause” or “pause music”.

Song Navigation

Say “next song” or “previous song”.

Shuffle Current Playlist

Say “shuffle”.

More about the currently playing song

Say “what’s playing”, “what song is this”, “who sings this song” or “who is this song by”.

Use Genius

Say “Genius”, “play more like this” or “play more songs like this”.

To Cancel Voice Control

Say “cancel” or press the Home button again.

Get Help about Voice Control

Say “Help“.

iPhone’s Voice Control can come in real handy when both your hands are tied or when you drive or…(fill-in with any reason). Make sure to pronounce the sentence clear and loud.

Just for your information, apart from supporting English you can Voice Control your iPhone on these languages as well,

Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (China)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Dutch
English (UK)
English (U.S.)
Finnish
French (Canada)
French (France)
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish

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