Press and hold
a little microphone button on the remote, and you can launch into those streaming apps and shows using an Alexa voice command.
Not exact matches
If you go on to our website there is going to be like a
little grey
button on the side that says «send voicemail» and with just a couple clicks you can actually use the
microphone on your computer to submit a voicemail that way.
My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that the two
buttons located on the headset, one which controls power and the other which mutes the
microphone, are a
little on the small side, making them a bit tougher to locate through feel.
The Google Home is a speaker equipped with a pair of always - on
microphones that are constantly listening for your queries, though there's a handy mute
button when you want a
little extra privacy.
You can then click the
little menu to the right of the Record
button and choose whether you want to capture audio from your
microphone in the video, too.
On the back of the device there's a
little switch for turning on and off the
microphone (if you remember, the Google Home had a
button that served the same function) and a small microUSB port for power.
Amazon has replaced that ring with volume
buttons — joining the manual Action
button and
microphone mute on the top panel — and made the new Echo Dot a
little shorter as a result.
It features a very similar design to the Play: 1, along with the exact same measurements and weight but it is a
little more refined, featuring a colour - matched speaker grille and a capacitive touch control pad rather than physical
buttons for playing and pausing, volume adjustment and track changing, as well as turning the
microphones on or off.
In the current Gboard, when you tap the
little microphone icon to input text via voice, the whole keyboard disappears and turns into a pause
button.