Taking pictures hands-free on your smartphone became easier through voice-controlled features by which your speech can travel faster than your hands can move.

On the iPhone, Siri can open the Camera app but won’t actually take a photo. To enable voice controlled capture, open Settings and choose Accessibility > Voice Control, then turn the feature on.

We were able to install Voice Access on our Galaxy S7 edge and use our voices to tell the phone what to do, where to go, and what to type.

Android has long excelled at voice control, and these days, there’s little you can’t accomplish by whispering the right sweet nothings into your phone’s pretty virtual ear.

Google Voice is an excellent app for streamlining phone calls, sending free text messages, and reading voicemail. Here's how to set it up.

In all these cases, if you've set up Google Voice to work properly with your phone's dialer (which you can't do on the Apple side), then when your voice control system initiates, it will dial out ...

Many Android phones let you record calls via the built-in Phone app (Android 9+), where available. Alternatives include ...