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okay Google Open Sesame those of us lucky enough to have Google assistant on our phones get to take advantage of a whole host of voice commands and cool features we can search the web start navigation open apps change settings send texts all without lifting a finger but whilst Google assistant is admittedly awesome there are still some things that can't do and there are those people who don't have Google assistant at all so in this video I'm going to look at some ways you can add more voice commands to your device so we can turn it into freakin Jarvis they're actually a ton of really cool apps and settings you can tweak in order to get more voice functionality on any device and it's a lot easier to set up than you might think in fact I'm going to show you how you can get all sorts of cool stuff working in just 10 minutes okay Google begin a ten minute timer in just seven minutes okay so the first and easiest way to add more functionality to Google assistant is just to add shortcuts and this is very easy to do all you need to do is to open up the Google assistant head into the settings and then scroll down to where it says shortcuts and here you can add more voice commands and then tell Google what you wanted to do when you add them so you can't add new functionality to Google this way but you can just shorten the commands you use to access that functionality this is also a cool way to hack Google assistant into saying some cool stuff because you can always use the repeat after me phrase in order to get it to respond to different commands however you want this is a good way to prank friends etc that's pretty basic though if we want to get to javis levels of cool then we're gonna have to use two new apps one is Tasker which you may be familiar with and the other is auto voice these are both paid apps but you're only paid once and there's no recurring fee annoyingly in order to access the full features of auto voice you'll need to unlock it via a separate app store called auto apps once again it's just a single payment and it is fairly simple to do if you like this kind of thing so basically Tasker is an automation tool and this lets you set up a whole range of different events which act like triggers and then tasks which the phone carries out in response to those events this means we can control all kinds of different features of our device that we don't normally have access to through Google assistant and we can set up Google assistant as the trigger by using auto voice whilst those are installs head on over to Tasker so click plus on the profiles tab and then choose event and plugin so in task you have profiles and profiles or events that trigger tasks so the event is your input your trigger and this can be anything it can be your device connecting to a home network it could be it reaching a certain time or in this case we're listening for a third-party app by using a plug-in and that plug-in of course is gonna be auto voice now choose recognized meaning that we're listening out for when auto voice recognizes a command and then click the pencil icon to edit the screen that comes up this will open up auto voice and there you're going to choose commands and enter the words you want to access your triggers you can put in several and separate those each with a comma so what some kind of functionality we can add to Google that it doesn't already have well what about some kind of captain's log this could be something that lets us take a voice memo and it'll be a great opportunity for us to look at how to get quite a complex sequence of events working from a single voice command so for our command let's say Captain's Log and for our response let's say listening click the tick in the top right once you're done and then click the back arrow on the event edit screen of Tasker a little pop-up will ask you to create a new task so go ahead choose that and give it a name let's call it captain's log to remember in Tasker a task is the output this is what you want your voice command to trigger and you can choose all sorts of different things and better yet you can stack multiple tasks so that you carry out a long sequence of different processes from a single voice command we're gonna choose a media for our task and then record audio you need to give your file a name I've called mine log and then choose the maximum size in the format click back so now we have our first task in captain's log but we want to add a few more because we want to be able to stop the audio after a few seconds so first add another task and call it wait and you'll find that in the task category and then wait then set that to 10 seconds that's long enough for a little voice memo then we're going to add another task from the media category and that will be of course record audio stop so now it's starting to listen it's waiting for 10 seconds and then it's automatically stopping finally we're going to add one more media task and that's gonna be music play and here you're gonna put the file name that you set in the record task and the location and that way we can hear our memo being played back to us to make sure that it's works and it's captured all the information we want so ok Google asked Auto voice Captain's Log listening record this message for me and play it back ok so as we can see it's actually recorded the end of the message from Google assistant so to improve this we might add a wait at the start of the tasks and we might also want to put in like a little beep to tell us it's time to talk but otherwise that's working pretty well at the moment in order to access the features we've added via Tasker we need to ask Google to ask for Tasker and that's kind of cumbersome it's a bit like Chinese whispers but luckily we already know how to create shortcuts on Google assistant and there are a ton of different plugins you can get for Tasker which can give it more functionality and which we can access using auto voice one of the coolest ones is wake-on-lan and I talked about this last time wake-on-lan allows you to wake a computer from a sleeping State and that means we can say something like Open Sesame and use that to boot up the computer another cool one is join and joined synchronizes your PC with your Android device that has a task of plug in as well and that means that we can tell Google to open a web page on our PC ok Google open Android authority okay and whilst it's not a task a plug in Google assistant also works with IFTTT which will allow you to do all sorts of things like send messages on social media or turn on your hue lights or set the nest thermostat to a certain temperature but that's something you see quite often there are tons of tutorials out there on that and I did say we're going to look at some ways you could add more voice functionality to your device without needing Google assistant or as it happens this is very easy all you need to do is to go into your settings and set Auto voice as your default assistant this way holding down the home button will bring up auto voice and you can use any of the commands that we've set up or anymore that you want to create without having to go through Google assistants if you want to get really advanced you can actually make your own apps for Google assistant but these are called actions on Google and to get started you can either check out the article I've written I under the authority calm or just open up the actions on Google console and then there you'll see the option to make a new app there's a ton of different options but the simplest ways don't require any coding basically all you're doing is linking to a spreadsheet on Google Drive and that spreadsheet will have a host of different questions and the answers you want to give for them using this method you can make quizzes personality tests and flash cards for remembering things so thanks ton for watching guys I hope you found this video useful and interesting if you did please leave a like and comment down below and let me know what voice commands you're adding to your device and what methods you're using to do it and well aware that there are lots of different ways to do this so I'd love to know what tricks you guys know that I missed if you'd like to see more like this then subscribe to the channel hit the bell button for notifications and of course check out Andrea Orta com4 we are your source for all things Android come back again soon