Android's various voice input methods, from the Google Assistant to the accessibility-minded Voice Access, are allgetting an upgrade. The Assistant will let you search for actions or activities inside third-party apps, and Voice Access is getting improved support for password input and a beta "gaze detection" feature that restricts it to work only when you're looking at your phone.
The Assistant feature that Google is announcing today sounds awfully like theShortcuts the company rolled out last year, and which are getting some feature expansionsas part of Android 12, letting you jump to specific parts of apps. We aren't sure if Google is re-announcing those features again or if they're genuinely new, but at a minimum, it sounds like more apps are picking up these integrations soon, and you can ask "Hey Google, shortcuts" to see a list of options based on your apps and integrations.
