Imagine collecting data with QuickCapture without the need to look at or touch your phone? Using Apple's voice control features in iOs, you can operate ArcGIS QuickCapture with your voice. Use voice commands to launch the app, open a project and to collect data!
This article describes how to configure Voice Control in your iOS device and a few tips to make your projects work best with Voice Control.
Voice Control is an operating system feature available in iOS 13. It allows you to use your voice to tap, swipe and type on your device. Voice Control is not available in all countries or regions: it uses the Siri speech recognition engine for U.S. English only.
It's recommended that you connect to Wi-Fi before you turn on Voice Control for the first time. Before you can use Voice Control, a file download is required. Once the download is complete, you don't need a Wi-Fi connection to use Voice Control.
To configure your iOS device to use Voice Control:
At the top-left corner of your phone, in the status bar, you will see a blue microphone icon indicating that Voice Control is actively listening to your commands. If the microphone icon is grayed out, say "Wake up" to activate Voice Control.
Now say, "Open QuickCapture" to launch the QuickCapture app.
To open a QuickCapture project from your the My Workspace page, say "Tap" followed by the name of your project.
To collect data, say "Tap" followed by the label of the button you want to tap.
Say "Go home" to return to the home page on your phone.
There are a handful of options to better control the behavior of Voice Control on iOS. You can find the details in the Use Voice Control on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Apple article.
ArcGIS QuickCapture is not designed to be fully operated using voice commands, although it supports the most common actions:
These are the actions in ArcGIS QuickCapture that do not support Voice Control:
If you want to enable unsupported actions, you can create custom Voice Commands
Here are a few additional tips:
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