You’re sitting in your workplace and determine to search out out when your subsequent appointment is. You decide up your telephone and murmur quietly, “OK Google, when’s my next appointment?” And then, loud sufficient to be heard over your entire room, your Google Assistant pronounces, “Next up, you have an appointment with your urologist on September 3rd at 9AM.”

You don’t have to cover below your desk anymore. Google has now made it potential to silence all Google Assistant voice output and solely present the solutions to your questions in your telephone. Here’s how one can set it up.

First, you could get to your Google Assistant settings. You can do it one among two methods:

• Use your voice by long-pressing in your energy button or saying “Hey, Google” or “OK Google” and say “Open Assistant.” Or…
• Go to Settings > Apps > Assistant > See all Assistant Settings

Once you’re in your Assistant Settings web page:

• Scroll right down to Assistant voice & sounds, search for Speech output and choose Phone
• Here you may select how a lot speaking your Assistant will do. Select None (except hands-free)

And you’re performed! From right here on, you may both sort in or converse your requests to Google Assistant, and it’ll silently give you no matter assist it could actually present.

Update March fifteenth, 2022, 11:40AM ET: This article was initially printed on August twenty seventh, 2019, and has been up to date to account for adjustments in Android.