Adding the "ok glass contextual voice menu" within an immersion activity

Question

Is there a way to insert the "ok, glass" trigger into an immersion activity on Glass? I want to make the launch of my application as seamless and quick as possible. Making an immersion application seemed to be the way but I can not find a way to bring up the "ok, glass" footer trigger within my activity to launch my application menu to be navigated hands free. Any clue as to how this works?

Note: I have a voice trigger to launch the app from the Glass home screen.

I'm not creating a card but rather just using an XML layout as I'm changing text on the screen dynamically to user interaction using an AsyncTask. Any advice would be great.

Paginate

isn't the point of the "ok glass" command to wake the device (if needed) and only then say the extra command to launch ? – Toombs

@androiddeveloper Some cards have additional options, like after taking a picture, you can say, "ok glass, share with...". – Hydr

@androiddeveloper it helps if your application benefits from all hands free operation. – Paginate

i see. so instead of waiting for glass to listen, you just continue talking and it will do what you want. isn't it a bit problematic (technically), since the "ok glass" (isn't it "ok google" btw?) could be a part of a sentence? for example in order to explain how it works? – Toombs

Answer 1

Contextual voice commands are not yet supported by the platform, feel free to file a feature request in our issues tracker.

UPDATE: as mentioned in the comments and the other answer, contextual voice commands are now part of the platform for Immersion: https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/voice#contextual_voice_commands

Justino

I have added a request to ask for Contextual Voice Commands code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/detail?id=273 – Paillasse

Could we customize the look of the voice intent? So it looks like our card but we can response to voice commands? – Maris

Seems like Contextual Voice commands are now available per: code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/detail?id=273#c25 – Murrelet

Answer 2

As of XE18.1 and GDK Preview 19, contextual voice commands are available in the GDK. Documentation is available at https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/voice.

Wolk