Okay Google

November 3, 2013

Recently I bought a new Android smartphone that comes with voice recognition. This feature allows you to interact with the system with your voice, the procedure is simple: start by saying “Okay Google” followed by your query.

Here some interesting questions:

Network

What’s my IP address?

App

Open Camera

Traffic

How is the traffic in Manhattan?

Money

What’s the value of one dollar in Swiss franc?

Math

What’s the square root of 64?

Weather

What’s the weather in Bali?

Time

What’s time in London?

Food

Search for sushi in Paris.

Movies

Gravity movie

Distance

What’s the distance from Paris to Geneva?

Stock

What’s the value of Google stock?

Note that all this queries requires access to Google server. If you are offline you can only do basic things like “Call my mother”