Soon you’ll be able to control Android apps with just your voice

There’s nothing particularly difficult about using apps but Google wants to make the process easier anyway. According to the schedule for Google I/O that was posted earlier today, the company is working on something called Voice Access that will supposedly enable you to control apps in a bunch of new ways, most importantly, it will allow you to control your apps using nothing but your voice. 

The more we look at the Google I/O schedule that was posted today, the more information we discover about upcoming features and products. After learning that the ATAP team is going to give us new wearables and that Android M will be around in some capacity, we found another feature called “Voice Access” that might help you control apps in new ways, namely, your voice. According to a session titled “Your app, now available hands-free,” Google talks about providing users with a new method of accessing apps that doesn’t require much development overhead. That new “method” is called Voice Access, a service that gives “anyone access to their Android device through voice alone.” Google plans to highlight simple steps for developers to follow in order to provide an “optimal experience” within apps using this new Voice Access service. That makes it sound like this isn’t just a way to launch an app with your voice, but is also a way to control aspects of it, something we haven’t seen in the past.