Change Voice Access settings on your Googlebook

You can manage your Voice Access settings based on your preferences.

Find or manage Voice Access settings

To find or change your Voice Access settings:

1. Open your Googlebook’s Settings app .
2. Select Accessibility Voice Access Settings.

Help

• Voice Access commands: In the settings, you can find the list of all commands. To open the list, say “Show all commands.”
• Help and feedback: Read help articles and send feedback, errors, or bug reports to Google.
• Open tutorial: Opens the Voice Access tutorial. To open the tutorial, say “Open tutorial.”

Voice command preferences

• Require verbs: When this setting is on, you need to use a verb, like tap, click, or open, for Voice Access commands.
  • For example, you need to say “Open Gmail” or ”Select Compose” instead of just “Gmail” or “Compose.”
• Time out after no speech: Pause Voice Access after 30 seconds of no speech.

Activation

• Listening behavior on screen wake-up: You can choose from:
  • Always start listening: Voice Access always starts listening when you use your device.
  • Start listening unless paused: Voice Access always starts listening unless you’ve previously said “Stop listening.”
  • Never start listening: Voice Access only starts listening when you select the Voice Access notification or button.
• Activate for incoming calls: This setting is on by default. It automatically turns on Voice Access when you receive a call.
• Active during calls: This setting is off by default. If you want to keep Voice Access on during phone calls, turn on this setting.
• Cancel on touch: When this setting is:
  • On: When you touch the screen, Voice Access stops.
  • Off: You can touch the screen without affecting Voice Access.
• Show keyboard when stopped: You can find an on-screen keyboard when a text field is selected and Voice Access is stopped.

Setup

• Set up Voice Access: Go to the setup flow.
• Configure activation key: To start or stop Voice Access, use a physical button like a keyboard key or Bluetooth switch. To use this setting:
  1. Connect a keyboard or switch to your device through USB or Bluetooth.
  2. On the Activation key screen, you can choose either:
     • Assigned key: Press the key or switch that you want to use to start and stop Voice Access.
     • Behavior: Choose how you like to use your key or switch. The default setting is to select to start Voice Access, then select again to stop. You can also choose to press and hold to start Voice Access, then release to stop.
• Recognize common icons: When this setting is on and you say “Show labels,” you can find labels with the names of common icons, like the back button.

More options

To change the settings listed below, select More options.

Voice Access feedback

• Play feedback sounds: When this setting is on, Voice Access plays feedback sounds, like when the microphone starts listening or when an error message is displayed.
• Verbosity: Choose how much feedback Voice Access provides:
  • All feedback
  • Only on errors
  • No feedback

Labels

• Label contrast: Change the opacity of on-screen labels and choose from:
  • Lightest
  • Light
  • Medium
  • Dark
• Show borders: Display borders around anything on the screen that you can interact with.

Grid selection

• Grid selection: To show the grid, turn on Grid selection. Learn more about grid selection.
• Grid size: Change the density of the grid.

Get help

For more help with Googlebook accessibility, contact the Google Disability Support team.