If you have not enabled voice recognition on iPhone, there are many reasons why you might want to. If you’re not sure what it is, voice recognition is an accessibility feature on the iPhone that tunes your device to listen for some important sounds, sending you a notification if it hears one.
For example, if you set your iPhone to listen for doorbell sounds, you will receive a notification as soon as it hears the doorbell. These notifications can also be set to vibrate, thus setting a haptic alert for environmental noise. Very pleasant. This is also obviously great (and intended of course) for those with low hearing, who may not even hear the door but can now feel their phone go off when the bell rings.
Voice recognition can also be set to pick up the sound of a smoke alarm, a baby crying, or a dog barking. You can even set it to pick up the sound of the boil, which solves the problem of forgetting to put the kettle on for a cup of tea and having to re-boil it.
On top of that, voice recognition also allows you to add custom sounds, so you can customize the recognition of the exact thing you want your iPhone to listen to, which we’ll show you how to do after the basic setup.
During use, I’ve found that my iPhone reacts in a very sensitive way to certain sounds, particularly doorbell sounds when I’m out and about, and even when I’m at my relatively quiet workplace. For this reason, it is advised to turn off voice recognition for certain sounds when you don’t need your iPhone to listen to them. Fortunately, toggling the feature, and even specific sounds, is quick and easy using the Control Center, which we’ll also cover in this article.
Here’s how to enable voice recognition on iPhone.
Note: This process involves downloading a small amount of data when you first set it up. It’s only 20-30MB in size, but if you’re short on cellular data, it’s worth connecting to Wi-Fi before you get started.
How to enable voice recognition on iPhone
- Open the Settings app and tap Accessibility
- Scroll down and tap Voice Recognition
- Press to switch to playback mode
- Wait for any required data to be downloaded
- Click on the sounds
- Tap the sounds of your iPhone to hear them
Read on for step-by-step instructions for each step.
1. Open the Settings appand then Click Accessibility.
2. Scroll down for hearing and Click on Voice Recognition.
3. Press the switch to the ON position. iPhone may start downloading some data, so just Wait until this is over. It shouldn’t be much (20-30MB), but you should Connect to a Wi-Fi network If you are short of data on your cellular plan.
4. Once everything is downloaded, Click on the sounds less.
5. Tap on the sound You want your iPhone to recognize it and notify you.
6. Press the switch button To turn on voice recognition for that voice. If this is the first time you have set up a voice, you will be prompted to accept voice recognition notifications. Click Allow.
7. To set certain tones of the sound, Click Alert Tonesand then Choose a tone. Click Vibrate Sets a specific vibration pattern, a custom vibration pattern or no vibration at all.
8. Your iPhone will start listening to audio right away, so you can Repeat steps 5 to 7 To set up more sounds or just Close Settings And you go about your business. You will see how many sounds you have set up in the voice recognition menu.
How to set up a custom sound
You can also set up a custom sound to listen to for your phone. This can be a custom alarm sound, a custom device, or a doorbell. Here’s how.
1. Go to the list of soundsand then Click Custom Alarm, Custom Device or Doorbell.
2. Tap Continue.
3. Enter a name for sound and Click Continue.
4. You will need to Record audio 5 times. to do this, Click start listening And the Make the device or doorbell beep. When the iPhone recognizes audio, a green tick will appear in one of the five audio slots. Repeat 4 more times.
Note: Your progress will be saved after each successful selection. That way, if it’s not practical to beep repeatedly in quick succession—that is, if you have to wait for the dishwasher to finish a 3-hour cycle—you can go back to it as needed. Simply Find your own personalized voice In the list of sounds, then Follow steps 2-4 Until you record the audio 5 times.
5. Once the audio is recorded 5 times, Click Done.
6. Currently wait a while. Setting up the new sound takes some time, usually a few minutes. You will receive an alert when the audio is ready to use. The sound is activated automatically but the notification gives you two options to activate. Press to leave to keep it, or Click off to disable. you can now Select your own custom sound From the list of sounds when you want to play it.
How to add voice recognition to Control Center
As mentioned earlier, you’ll want to add voice recognition to Control Center so you can quickly turn it on and off if it’s annoying, or quickly customize the sounds your iPhone listens to. Here’s how.
1. Open the Settings app And the Click on Control Center.
2. Scroll down to More Controls And the Click on Voice Recognition to move it to the inline controls.
3. Swipe down from the top of the screen to bring up the control center. Click on the voice recognition icon To turn it on and off (it will be colored when it is on).
4. Press and hold the voice recognition icon To see the full list of votes. press one to turn it on and off. Click on Settings To access the full voice recognition settings menu.
Now that you’ve mastered this feature, why not know more about what the iPhone hides beneath the surface. Check out our guide on how to change how notifications are displayed on iPhone, how to customize iPhone lock screen, how to download iOS 16, and how to update iPhone.
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