Google Voice Search Now Identifies Your Contacts Relationship

 

We all have some form of relationship set in our Google contacts. Be it ‘Mom’, ‘Wife’, ‘Better Half’ or ‘That Friend’. While some of us use these identifiers as the contact name, other times we just know who that person is and use their real name. Sometimes that can get tricky with voice activated function, especially if you have a ton of contacts that have the same first name, but you put the last name as the identifier ie David brother. A new feature is now available in Google Now that can help simplify your contact and how you connect to them with voice search and actions.

If you have the relationship in the contact, then you should be good to go and simply state what you want to do. If you don’t, you will be prompted to identify who that relationship referred to. For instance, I pulled out the Moto X and said “Text the wife, how is the appointment going?” I obviously didn’t have my wife listed as my wife in the contacts, so it prompted me to identify who it was.

After that, everytime I say ‘text the wife’, or ‘call the wife’ or anything else that I need to involve “the wife” on, Google knows who it is. Pretty cool really. Sadly it wouldn’t pick up or let me set anything profane to a contact. I tried in the relationship field to set various words that we all use to describe some people in our lives, but it failed me many times. Seems the defaults like Mom, Dad, Wife, Brother, Grandma, Grandpa and the likes are your best bets.

Via Google’s G+ page

p.s. This doesn’t require a new update to the search app. As long as you are on the most recent version of 3.2.17 you should be fine.