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Use S Voice on Samsung Galaxy S4 and control your phone without touching It

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How to Set Up S Voice for First Time Use

Familiarize Yourself With the S Voice Settings on Samsung Galaxy S4

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Your Samsung Galaxy S4 has a really useful feature called, S Voice, that allows you to issue commands to your phone and complete tasks without ever touching it. You can call people, send SMS messages, control your music, search the internet, create memos and alarms, and a number of other tasks using just your voice. This article will teach you how to set up and use your phone's S Voice functionality.

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1 How to Set Up S Voice for First Time Use
2 Familiarize Yourself With the S Voice Settings on Samsung Galaxy S4
3 Questions and Answers
4 Comments

How to Set Up S Voice for First Time Use

Before you can use S Voice, you'll need to set it up properly. Follow the guide below to do just that.

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Go to your Samsung Galaxy S4's home screen by pressing the Home button, located on the lower-middle part of your phone
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You are now on the Home screen
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Tap on the Apps icon
to go to the list of all applications installed on your phone.
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You are now on the Apps page
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Swipe through your applications until you find the S Voice app.
. Tap on it to open the application.
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S Voice will now open
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On the first screen, you will see a Samsung disclaimer. Read through the disclaimer and tap Confirm to continue.
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Next, Samsung's Terms of Service will appear
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Read through the Terms and tap Agree to continue.
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You should now see information about S Voice
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You can tap Skip to go to the next step, or you can tap Next to read more information.
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Now S Voice will explain some of the commands you can give
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Tap the Previous button to go back to the previous page; tap the Skip button to skip this step; or tap the Next button to see more information.
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You are now on the Wake up S Voice page, which will explain how you can unlock your phone by saying "Hi, Galaxy." You can change the phrase by tapping on the Change now button and recording your own wake up command
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Note that enabling the wake up command may consume more battery power and could shorten your standby time.
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When you are done changing the wake up voice command, you can choose to go to the previous page, skip the informational pages, or go to the next page
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To follow this guide, tap on the Next button.
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You can review the recorded command and use the Edit what you said page to edit it
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You can use your phone's virtual keyboard to edit commands and use the typed command as the new command for the task in S Voice. Tap on Next to proceed.
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The next page is the Help page, where you will be shown S Voice command examples
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Review the actions below and tap Finish when you are done.
1. Voice Dial - Allows you to call a number using S Voice. The default command is "Call *Contact's Name* mobile."
2. Message - Allows you to send a message to a recipient using S Voice. The default command is "Text *Contact's Name* Message *Insert message*."
3. Search Contacts - Allows you to search for contacts on your phone using S Voice. The default command is "Look up *Contact's Name*."
4. Create a Memo - Allows you to create a command using S Voice. The default command is "Memo *Desired Memo*."
5. Schedule - Allows you to create a scheduled task. Default command is "New Event *Event*"
6. Task - Allows you to create a task using S Voice. The default command is "New Task *Desired New Task*."
7. Music - Allows you to control music playback using S Voice. The default command is "Play *Name of Playlist or Song*."
8. Social Update - Allows you to update statuses on your social network accounts. The default command is "Twitter or Facebook Update *Status Update*."
9. Search - Allows you to search the internet using S Voice. The default command is "Search *Desired Search Topic*."
10. Open App - Allows you to open an application using S Voice. Default command is "Open *Name of Application*."
11. Driving Mode - Allows you to turn on and off Driving Mode using S Voice. Default command is "Driving Mode On or Off."
12. Set alarm - Allows you to set an alarm using S Voice. Default command is "Set Alarm for *Time*."
13. Timer - Allows you to set a timer using S Voice. Default command is "Set Time For *Number of Minutes or Hours*."
14. Simple Settings Control - Allows you to control the basic settings of your phone using S Voice. The default command is "Turn *Setting* On or Off."
15. Navigate - Allows you to open the maps using S Voice. The default command is "Navigate to *Place*."
16. Weather - Allows you to inquire about the weather using S Voice. The default command is "What is the weather for today?"
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Now that you know how to issue each command, it's time to actually use S Voice
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Tap on the microphone icon
to begin giving S Voice commands.
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You can also use S Voice by doing the alternative procedure below:

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Go to your Samsung Galaxy S4's home menu by pressing the Home button located on the lower-middle part of your phone
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From the home menu, press the Home button twice
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You have learned how to use S Voice on your Samsung Galaxy S4 using an alternative method
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Familiarize Yourself With the S Voice Settings on Samsung Galaxy S4

1
Go to your Samsung Galaxy S4's home screen by pressing the Home button, located on the lower-middle part of your phone
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You are now on the Home screen
.
Tap on the Apps icon
to go to the list of applications installed on your phone.
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You are now on the Apps page
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Go through the applications and look for the S Voice icon.
Tap on it to open the application.
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S Voice will now open
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Tap on the Menu button
to view the settings for the application:
1. Language - Allows you to change the default language of the S Voice application.
2. Open via the Home Key - When enabled, you can open the S Voice application by pressing the Home button twice.
3. Use Location Data - When enabled, this allows location data on your phone to be used to improve S Voice results.
4. Hide Offensive Words - When enabled, S Voice will put a censor on the words that are potentially offensive. Asterisks will replace some of the letters in the words that are offensive.
5. Help - Allows you to view help topics about using S Voice.
6. About - Allows you to view the software version of your copy of the S Voice application.
7. Driving Mode - Can be switched to ON
  or OFF
  . Driving Mode has a submenu where you can adjust these settings:
  My Place for Driving mode - Allows you to set a place where Driving Mode will be activated automatically. You can set any WiFi network or Bluetooth device as a place your phone will automatically connects to - Driving mode will automatically launch.
  
  Incoming Call - Allows your phone to read out the caller's information for an incoming call.
  
  ChatON- Allows your phone to read out the caller's information for an incoming ChatON call.
  
  Message- Allows your phone to read out the caller's information for an incoming message.
  
  Alarm- Allows your phone to read out the alarm information when an alarm sounds.
  
  Calendar- Allows your phone to read out events when calendar events activates.
8. Voice Control - Allows you to turn ON
  or OFF
  Voice control. When Voice control is activated, you can do various tasks using Voice commands. These are the common Voice commands:
  Answer - Answers incoming calls.
  
  Reject - Rejects incoming calls.
  
  Stop - Stops an alarm.
  
  Snooze - Snoozes an alarm.
  
  Capture/Shoot/Smile/Cheese - Allows you to take pictures.
  
  Next - Allows you to play the next music file in the list.
  
  Previous - Allows you to play the previous music file in the list.
  
  Play - Allows you to play the selected music file.
  
  Pause - Allows you to pause the currently playing music file.
  
  Volume Up - Turns your volume up.
  
  Volume Down - Turns your volume down.
9. Auto-start speaker - Automatically turns the speakerphone on when making a call.
10. Show Body of Message - Allows you to see the content of new messages when activated.
11. Wakeup Command - Allows you to unlock your phone from sleep mode using the pre-configured wake up command.
12. Set Wakeup Command - Allows you to set a custom wake up command for your phone.
13. Check Missed Events - Allows your phone to read to you missed events every time you connect a headset.
14. Home Address - Inputs your home address.
15. Log in to Facebook - Logs into your Facebook account and will post a status using your voice.
16. Log in to Twitter - Logs into your Twitter account and will post a tweet using your voice.
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Questions and Answers

Is there a way to set up S Voice for incoming calls?

I want my phone to read who is calling and allow me to accept or deny the call with my voice."

You can enable incoming call options from S Voice so you can accept and reject incoming calls with voice commands. This has been mentioned in this section

You can enable the Incoming call option in S Voice by following this simple guide:

Go to your Home screen by pressing the your device's Home button, which is the button on the lower-middle part of your device.
Once you are on the Home screen, tap the Menu key.
From the options menu, tap Settings.
From Settings, tap the My Device tab.
From My Device, tap Voice Control.
The upper-right part of the screen will have a switch. Switch it on turn to turn on Voice Control.
Tap the box for Incoming calls to turn the feature on.

When you receive a call, say "Answer" to take the call or "Reject" to reject it. Your Galaxy S4 will turn the speakerphone on so you can hear your caller. Note: Voice Control will not function if your device is in Silent Mode.

How do I default my Bluetooth headset to use S Voice instead of Google?

To make S Voice your default application when making voice commands, please do the following.

Go to your Settings app.
Tap on Applications.
Tap on Application manager, then tap the All tab, then tap Google Now.
Tap Force stop, Clear data and Clear cache.
Go back to the All tab and then select S Voice. Then, tap Force stop, Clear data and Clear cache.
Open the S Voice app and then tap on Confirm, then Agree, then Skip (to skip the intro tutorial), then close it and go to your Home screen.
Double-tap your Home button.
A window asking which application you want to use will pop up; select S Voice, and then hit Always.

Your default application will now be S Voice.

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Enter debug mode or accept license agreements?

My screen is dead and I have many apps that will allow me to see the screen on my computer or Tablet. Most require my phone to be in debug mode, but with no screen, is that impossible?