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since the relatively early days of android google has let us use our voice to do relatively common tasks like sending text messages or emails I could say send a text message to bendito papen Dorf hey I love the new book and it would do it but who is bendito Papen Dorf and why can't I say send a text message to mom I'm Jo Levi for Pocket now we're going to go hands-on with a brand new feature from Google now that lets you do just that so before we dig into this this is relatively new in fact it's so new that it's being released in stages you might not have got it yet if you haven't be patient we're going to show you on the Nexus 5 at running Android 4.4 KitKat so if you have an older version of Android again this might not work second there has been kind of a workaround in the past if you've wanted to say send a text message to mom you could create an address book entry for Mom and then it worked just fine but then she'd be mom and it wouldn't have her name you could set up a nickname for mom using her full name but that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't Google now or the updated Google search or whatever you want to call it whatever they want to call it now is letting you set up those relationships on the fly so that you can say okay Google now call mom or send a text message to mom let me show you how to do it so I've created a new contact in here with the name of the bendi dope Eppendorf and I've given em a fake phone number and a fake email address and this will be my fake brother it's that sound good so we can connect them to a Google circle if we want to or Google+ circle but we don't want to do that right now let's go back home this is my Nexus 5 running KitKat and the Google experience launcher so I should be able to just say ok Google call my brother bendito papin Dorf and then it asks if I want to remember bendito papen Dorf as my brother I do so I will add a relationship and then right there it's going to fire up my Google Voice so once that relationship is set up you can do simple things with it in the future like okay Google send a text message to my brother I'm going to be late for dinner here's your text do you want to send it yes sending message and just as simple as that I've sent a text message to my brother who Google remembers is bendito papin Dorf and it has said I'm going to be late for dinner you can do this for anybody you could do it for your wife your girlfriend your mom your dad your crazy uncle whoever you want it just makes the whole experience a lot nicer now one thing that I haven't found yet what if I got the wrong person in here for example if I wanted to do this demo again well if I want to do that and I want to remove the relationship I don't know where that is it doesn't seem to store that in my contacts so if you have found out how you can go in and edit that relationship after it's been set up we want to know head down to the comments and tell us just how to do it what did you do step by step to either change that relationship or to remove it entirely so there's a cool trick to send a message or call someone based on their relationship to you rather than by their name if you like seeing these kinds of tips make sure you throw the video a thumbs up so we know to keep doing them for you and of course you want to make sure that you've subscribed to our video channel so you don't miss out on those new videos as soon as we've released them while you're at it tell your friends about us we're on all of your favorite social networks my favorite being Twitter or at PocketNow and I'm at Joe Levi thank you very much for watching we'll catch you next time I'm Joe Levi for pocket now here's how you can use Google's new relationship that's not even really a thing blah