In TalkBack 9.1 and up, you can activate many TalkBack commands with your voice. For example, you can manage reading controls, find items on a page, edit text, or navigate your device.
Start voice command
- On your device, one-finger swipe right then up.
- Listen for the confirmation sound.
- Speak your command.
Tip: To update your voice command gesture, go to TalkBack settings 
Customize gestures.
Voice commands
| Category |
Commands |
| Reading control |
- Read from next item
- Read from next
- Read from top
- Next heading
- Next control
- Next link
- Next landmark
- [Character, word, line] navigation
- Navigate by [character, word, line]
- Read by [character, word, line]
- Character, word, line
- Talk faster
- Talk slower
- Increase speech rate
- Decrease speech rate
- [Low, high, or custom] verbosity
- Change verbosity to [low, high, or custom]
- First
- Top
- Last
- Bottom
- Languages
|
| Find items |
- Find [what you’d like to find]
- Search for [what you’d like to find]
- Search [what you’d like to find]
- Find
- Search on screen
- Search screen
|
| Text editing |
- Type [what you’d like to type]
- Input [what you’d like to type]
- Dictate [what you’d like to type]
- Write [what you’d like to type]
- Spell [what you’d like to type]
- Select all
- Select
- Start select
- Start selection mode
- Start selection
- Finish select
- Finish selection
- Finish selection mode
- End select
- Copy
- Cut
- Paste
- Delete
- Edit options
- Text editing
- Edit text
- Editing options
|
| Device navigation |
- Home
- Desktop
- Back
- Go back
- Notifications
- Quick settings
- Overview
- Recent apps
- Recents
- All apps
- Apps, except for "recent"
- Google Assistant
|
| Other commands |
- TalkBack settings
- Hide screen
- Dim
- Darken
- Show screen
- Brighten screen
- Restore screen
- Cancel hide screen
- Actions
- Custom actions
- Label [submit]
- Stop
- Quit
- Quiet
- Pause
- Nevermind
|
Tip: You can say commands in singular or plural.
For more help with Talkback, contact the Google Disability Support team.