Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Set My Phone to Say the Caller's Name of a Specific Contact in Android 5.0.1 Lollipop

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:

1. 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.
2. With the settings menu is displayed in grid view, scroll down to the System section and then tap Language and input .
3. Scroll the screen to the very bottom and then tap Notification readout.
4. Check the box next to Calls from favourite contacts to enable it.
5. 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. If you don't know how to add a contact to favourite, you can see the complete steps here.

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:
• Tap to start recording.
• Say a phrase contains with the name of the desired contact with clearly, e.g: "you have incoming call from John".
• Tap to stop recording.
3. In the recordings list, long tap the voice recording you have just recorded to select it.
4. Tap at the top right or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Set as.
5. Tap 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.

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

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 .

See also: How to Set SD Card as Default Storage on Camera App in Samsung Galaxy S3

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 change the default storage on voice recorder app ?
Below are the steps you need to do if you want to set the internal storage or SD card as the default storage on voice recorder app:

1. Go to Apps from the Home screen.
2. Scroll to Voice recorder, then tap it.
3. Tap the Menu key then select Settings.
4. Tap Storage , then you can choose to use either Phone or Memory card as the default storage.

Once you set the default storage in voice recorder app, now every time you use this application to record sound, the file will be automatically saved in the SD card.

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

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.

See also: How to Use the Stock Voice Recorder Applications on Samsung Galaxy S3

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:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to Voice recorder, then tap on it.
3. Tap List to view all saved voice recordings.
4. Tap the required voice recording file to play it.
5. 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.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use the Stock Voice Recorder Applications

Samsung Galaxy SIII comes with some pre-installed applications that you can use directly without having to install it first. One of which is S Suggest apps, this applications will helps you to know which recommended popular applications that compatible with your phone that you should choose to install.

See also: How to Use S Suggest on Samsung Galaxy S3

Another pre-installed apps that you can find inside Samsung Galaxy SIII is voice recorder apps. This apps will allow you to record an audio file and share it using AllShare, Messaging, Gmail or Bluetooth.


How to record audio using voice recorder?
Below are the steps to do so:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to Voice recorder, then tap on it.
3. Tap Red circle button to start recording.
4. Now you can speak into the microphone.
5. While your phone record the audio, you can utilize some option available there:
• Tap Stop button to stop recording. It will automatically save the audio file and the recorded files screen is displayed.
• Tap Pause button to temporarily stop the recording and tap Record button again to resume recording.
• Tap Cancel button to cancel the recording without saving.
6. Finish. Now you have managed to record an audio using the stock voice recorder applications.

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. So, hope this helps :)