How-to guide · Communication Pre-fill a phone number in the dialer with your voice

Actiondial
Audience Motor Vision Privacy
Time Under 10 seconds
Permissions None — Aside opens the dialer; the call only happens if you tap the green button
What this is: A spoken or typed request that opens the system dialer with the number you said already typed in — ready for you to confirm by tapping the green call button. Aside never places a call by itself. The dialer just appears with the number pre-filled; the actual call is always your decision and your tap.
Try it now

Open Aside on your phone, then say or type:

“Dial 555-0148.”

Aside confirms in the chat history and the phone’s dialer opens with 555-0148 already typed. To actually place the call, tap the green call button. To not place the call, tap the back gesture — nothing happens, no number was dialed.

Step by step

  1. Open Aside

    Tap the Aside icon, or trigger your assist gesture if you’ve set Aside as your default assistant. Aside opens to the orb in its idle state with the prompt “Tell me everything,” beneath it.

    The Aside main screen at idle on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. Across the top: the word ‘Aside’ with a red dot, a small mono status pill reading ‘● IDLE’, the cost counter ‘$1.634 today’, and a ‘NEW’ link top-right. Centered in the screen is a large warm-paper-colored orb with a soft brown core, slowly breathing. Below the orb, in large bold type: ‘Tell me everything,’. Below that, in lighter type: ‘Tap the orb or type below.’. Near the bottom is a clay-colored ‘Make Aside my assistant’ button and a row of four mono pills: ‘history’, ‘type’, ‘muted’, ‘memory · 3 new’.
    Aside open at idle. The orb breathes; nothing else is happening.

  2. Say (or type) the number you want to dial

    Hold the orb to talk and say “Dial 555-0148,” or tap the type pill at the bottom and type the same phrase, then send. Aside accepts the number however you say it — “five five five oh one four eight,” “dial 555 0148,” “call 555-01-48” all parse to the same digits.

    Dial 555-0148.
    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet covering the lower half of the screen. The status pill at the top reads ‘● READY’ and the cost counter has ticked up to ‘$1.665 today’. Inside the bottom sheet: a small mono label ‘YOU’ above ‘Dial 555-0148.’; a label ‘ASIDE’ above ‘Pre-filling the dialer for you.’; and a clay-tinted ‘ASIDE NOTE’ chip showing ‘▶ dialer: 555-0148’.
    Aside confirms — and reminds you that you are the one who taps to call. The number is just pre-filled, never auto-dialed.

  3. The dialer opens with the number ready

    A moment later your phone’s dialer slides up. The number you said is already typed across the top. Nothing has been called. The big green call button is sitting there waiting for you. Below it, a backspace key lets you correct a digit if you misspoke; the keypad lets you add or change digits if you need to.

    The Samsung Phone dialer full-screen on the Galaxy S23 Ultra in dark mode (black background, white digits). The status bar at the top shows the time 9:42 and a 100% battery indicator. A row of small header icons sits below: add-contact (+), tag, search, and an overflow menu (⋮). Centered near the top in very large white type are the digits ‘555-0148’ — the number Aside pre-filled. Below that, a full 12-key dialpad fills the middle of the screen with letters under each digit (1, 2 ABC, 3 DEF, 4 GHI, 5 JKL, 6 MNO, 7 PQRS, 8 TUV, 9 WXYZ, ✱, 0 +, #). At the bottom of the screen, a large round green button with a white phone icon sits centered, with a green video-call icon to its left and a white backspace ✕ icon to its right. The call has not been placed.
    Dialer pre-filled with 555-0148. The call only happens when you tap the green button.

  4. Tap to call — or back out, no harm done

    If the number looks right, tap the green call button to place the call. If you changed your mind, swipe back or tap the home button — the dialer closes and no call is made. Aside cannot place a call on your behalf, ever. The dialer’s green button is the only way the call happens, and that button is always under your finger.

Why doesn’t Aside just call directly? Calls cost money, ring loudly in someone else’s pocket, and can be embarrassing or unsafe to misfire. Aside is designed to draft a call and let you confirm with one tap — the same way it drafts emails and texts without sending. It’s an explicit safety choice and it doesn’t change.
Note: Aside doesn’t yet read your contacts to convert “dial Mom” into a phone number — that’s on the roadmap. For now, say the digits or paste the number from your contacts.