Google’s clock app for Android has loads of sound choices to set as an alarm. When you don’t just like the default tone, you should utilize a track or a podcast from Spotify or YouTube Music (solely when you’ve got a premium subscription), too — and Google now additionally permits you to file a voice clip and set that as an alarm tone.
This characteristic was first seen by Esper.io’s Mishaal Rahman. As he famous, it is a server-side push, so so long as you’re utilizing Clock app model 7.3, it’s best to see this characteristic with out updating the app.
Rahman additionally notes that this characteristic works solely on Pixel telephones or gadgets the place customers have sideloaded the Google Recorder app. But it surely’s potential that Google might roll out the voice clip as an alarm characteristic to all gadgets sooner or later, so long as they’ve a recorder app.
It might be a approach to prank somebody by altering their regular alarm tone with a recorded clip whereas they’re wanting away. Or a extra productive use case can be to remind you of one thing proper if you rise up. However it could be freaky to listen to your individual voice very first thing within the morning.
This new characteristic undoubtedly joins the league of bizarre alarm apps. We’ve seen apps like Wakie, which helps you to get up strangers; Microsoft’s Mimicker, which pressured you to ape expressions to silence the alarm; or the Doomsday Alarm clock, which helps you to arrange apocalyptic eventualities to get up.
