How to Set My Phone to Say the Caller's Name of a Specific Contact in Samsung Galaxy S5

How to Set My Phone to Say the Caller's Name of a Specific Contact in Samsung Galaxy S5

 

Yesterday, an insider left his comment and said that he wanted his phone to say his friend's name when receiving incoming calls from her. Fortunately, if you own Samsung Galaxy S5, you can enable the notification readout feature for favourite calls so that your phone will read the caller's name when receiving incoming calls from your favourite contacts, or you can use the stock Voice recorder app to record your voice that say a contact's name and then set it as ringtone for the desired contact.


How to enable notification readout feature for calls from favourite contacts?
You can do so by using the following steps:

• On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap at the top right to go to the settings menu.
• With the settings menu is displayed in grid view, scroll down to the System section and then tap Language and input .
• Scroll the screen to the very bottom and then tap Notification readout.
• Check the box next to Calls from favourite contacts to enable it.
• From now on, when your favourite contact calls you, your phone will say the caller's information. As the example, if you have added a contact named "John" as favourite, your phone will say "incoming call from John" when receiving call from him. 

How to assign your voice recording as caller ringtone?
You can record your voice by using the stock Voice recorder app and then set it as ringtone for a specific contact by using the following steps:

1. Open Voice recorder app.
2. To record your voice, do as follows:
• Click to start recording.
• Say a phrase contains with the name of the desired contact with clearly, e.g: "you have incoming call from John".
• Click to stop recording.
3. In the recordings list, long tap the voice recording you have just recorded to select it.
4. Click at the top right or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Set as.
5. Click Caller ringtone.
6. Select the required contact.
7. The selected voice recording has been set as ringtone for the selected contact.
8. From now on, when the selected contact calls you, your phone will play the voice recording you have set as caller ringtone.

How to Change Default Storage on Voice Recorder App in Samsung Galaxy S3

A good thing in the Samsung Galaxy SIII is that you can add a memory card into this phone to extend the storage and prevents the internal storage quickly run out. As we all know that the low internal storage can give you some problems, such as error when open or save files, etc. . Fortunately, once you add a memory card to your phone, you can set the default storage in some applications to the SD card, for instance you can set any image taken by the camera to automatically saved to the SD card .


In addition to the camera app, you can also set the default storage in another app, one of which is a voice recorder app. You can choose to save the voice recorder files to the phone or memory card 

How to Play Back Audio Files Using Voice Recorder Application Samsung Galaxy S3

Voice recorder is one of pre-installed application that you can find inside Samsung Galaxy SIII. This apps will allow you to record an audio then save it as 3ga file format.

Later, you can share the files with others using AllShare, Messaging, Gmail or Bluetooth. In addition, you can also listen to the files you already saved using voice recorder.

How to play back voice memo?
Here are the steps you need to do to play back the recorded audio file through the stock voice recorder apps:

• Go to Apps through Home screen.
• Scroll to Voice recorder, then tap on it.
• Click  List to view all saved voice recordings.
• Click the required voice recording file to play it.
• While you're playing, you can utilize some options, such as the Pause button to pause the playback and the Stop button to stop the playback.

By knowing how to listen recorded audio file using voice recorder, now you can play back all the recorded audio files anytime you want.

It's easy to do, right? Now you can record audio files you want using voice recorder apps available on your phone, save it then listen to it again later.