Voice Access

Google LLC

About this app

Voice Access helps anyone who has difficulty manipulating a touch screen (e.g. due to paralysis, tremor, or temporary injury) use their Android device by voice.

Voice Access provides many voice commands for:
- Basic navigation (e.g. "go back", "go home", "open Gmail")
- Controlling the current screen (e.g. "tap next", "scroll down")
- Text editing and dictation (e.g. "type hello", "replace coffee with tea")

You can also say "Help" any time to see a short list of commands.

Voice Access includes a tutorial which introduces the most common voice commands (starting Voice Access, tapping, scrolling, basic text editing, and getting help).

You can use the Google Assistant to start Voice Access by saying "Hey Google, Voice Access". To do this, you’ll need to enable "Hey Google" detection. You can also tap either the Voice Access notification or a blue Voice Access button and start talking.

To pause Voice Access temporarily, just say "stop listening". To disable Voice Access completely, go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Access and turn off the switch.

For additional support, see Voice Access help.

This app uses the AccessibilityService API to help users with motor impairments. It uses the API to collect information about the controls on the screen and activate them based on the user’s spoken instructions.

Ratings and reviews

This app used to be great. I spoke, it converted speech to text in any app I was in, simple. No commands needed. Perfect for when driving & need to send urgent message. It was 99% accurate, too. Last time it didn't work. I started calling out commands & found I have to shout, normal volume didn't work, "type" be4 it'll do anything. I also have to start immediately or it stops. If I pause it stops. Accuracy is at best 75%. The last update broke this app.

It worked well one time. Now if I say "show labels" it hears "show levan" then after I've said it three times and waited a few seconds each time it shows labels, one of them is nine, I say tap nine ten times and it says there is no nine or it doesn't understand, I check that there's space in my device, restart, it just blinks its little icon the first 12 times I tap on it or talk to it, give it a few more minutes, now it doesn't understand open chrome if I say it three times

This is such a useful and important feature for us disabled folks... when it works. Super buggy - duplicates commands, will suddenly decide in grid mode that you obviously must be wanting to type numbers instead of clicking them, and recently it's started using a TON of resources. Oh, and it's started opening an app with the word "Two" in its name instead of tapping OR typing the number 2, so that's fun to have to work around 🙃 I just want this to work smoothly so I can use my phone!

What's new

- Assorted bug fixes and quality improvements.