"The answer is 85" was its reply to my voice search, "What's one plus two times the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" and it displayed the result on the calculator! Thank you Douglas Adams for creating a named constant. I started using voice search last year after watching a YouTube video showing all…

Using this to replace typing is handy..... but more than that I use it for accessing apps. For example, simply telling it "set a timer for 20 minutes" is SO much easier than scrolling thru 3 screens, opening a folder, opening an app, accessing the timer function, keying in a time and clicking start.

One I use a lot but isn't mentioned in the article.....

Just discovered this today:

About your problem trying to find the definition of a word that is not easy for the speech recognition engine (in your case 'morel'), you can spell the word letter by letter. If you simply say 'm' 'o' 'r' 'e' 'l' you'll get the definition.

Two recent interactions with Siri:

I have just started having upgraded from an iphone 4 to a galaxy note II. It is much more useful than I expected and am yet to get used to all the key phrases to initiate actions.

I have to say, I use it pretty much all the time on my galaxy s4... i'm a french canadian so using the french language to:

bonus story: Whenever I try voice recognition software at home, it will work quite OK. But only until my children race in to see why dad is speeking to no one....

I have been using it , on my 2nd phone since I started using it. I am not sure if the google learning my speech pattern actually works, but the more I use it the higher the accuracy google catches my commands.

When you're editing a contact, just click "Add New Field" at the bottom and choose phonetic name. That's on Jelly Bean, could be different on other phones/versions of Android.

I've tried it in a noisy bar and it worked perfectly!

I'm a Get Things Done guy... and the Note to Self automatically dumps a note into Evernote for me.... where my GTD system lives. I use it all the time.

I don't think this is voice search's fault, I think it's Maps' fault. If I search for a contact in Maps, it can't find their address, even if I had the address in their contact card. I could have sworn this used to work, but now it doesn't. SUPER annoying.

I use the alarm thing every time I do laundry. I did try it once to set an early wake up alarm once, but I neglected to specify "AM" instead of PM. I've tried using it to calculate my gas mileage, but it doesn't handle multiple decimal places well, or I don't know how to tell it to do so. I also like doing…

Ha, I think it knows a few silly answers. For example, I think it can tell you "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?"

It understnads a lot of things like that. You can ask things like "do I need an umbrella tomorrow?" and it knows you're asking for the weather. That's not exactly useful (no reason you wouldn't just say "what's the weather?") but they're trying really hard to make it understand all permutations of a question.…

For a lark, I asked Google Voice "How'd the Red Sox do last night?" To my surprise, it understood what I was asking, and gave me the score.

I'm really curious: how many of you have actually started using voice actions? Has it become anyone's go-to? Or is it just too silly for you to even try?