Google’s clock app for Android has a great deal of sound selections to set as an alarm. Whenever you don’t identical to the default tone, you must make the most of a monitor or a podcast from Spotify or YouTube Music (solely whenever you’ve received a premium subscription), too — and Google now moreover lets you file a voice clip and set that as an alarm tone.
This attribute was first seen by Esper.io’s Mishaal Rahman. As he well-known, it’s a server-side push, so as long as you’re using Clock app mannequin 7.3, it’s greatest to see this attribute with out updating the app.
Rahman moreover notes that this attribute works solely on Pixel telephones or devices the place clients have sideloaded the Google Recorder app. However it absolutely’s potential that Google would possibly roll out the voice clip as an alarm attribute to all devices eventually, as long as they’ve a recorder app.
It may be a method to prank any person by altering their common alarm tone with a recorded clip whereas they’re wanting away. Or a additional productive use case may be to remind you of 1 factor correct should you stand up. Nevertheless it could possibly be freaky to hearken to your particular person voice very very first thing inside the morning.
This new attribute undoubtedly joins the league of weird alarm apps. We’ve seen apps like Wakie, which lets you rise up strangers; Microsoft’s Mimicker, which pressured you to ape expressions to silence the alarm; or the Doomsday Alarm clock, which lets you organize apocalyptic eventualities to rise up.
