How-to guide · System controls & safety Set the volume by voice

Actionset_volume
Audience Motor Vision
Time Under 10 seconds
Permissions None — uses the standard Android AudioManager API
What this is: A spoken or typed request that sets one of your phone’s four audio streams — media, ring, alarm, or notification — to a specific level from 0 to 100. No fishing for the rocker buttons, no pulling down Quick Settings to find the right slider. Helpful when the side keys are awkward to press, when you can’t see the slider clearly, or when you just want a precise number instead of guessing.
Try it now

Open Aside on your phone, then say or type:

“Turn the media volume up to 70.”

Aside confirms in the chat history and the media stream jumps to 70%. Phrase it any way that feels natural — “set the ring volume to 30,” “put the alarm at full,” “notification volume to 20” all work.

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 — calm, slowly breathing — 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, 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 pill button reading ‘Make Aside my assistant’, and below that a row of four mono pills: ‘history’, ‘type’, ‘muted’, ‘memory’.
    Aside open at idle. The orb breathes; nothing else is happening.

  2. Say (or type) the volume you want

    Hold the orb to talk and say “Turn the media volume up to 70,” or tap the type pill at the bottom and type the same phrase, then send. Be specific about which stream — media (videos, music, podcasts), ring (incoming calls), alarm (your morning alarms), or notification (text and email pings). If you don’t name a stream, Aside defaults to media.

    Turn the media volume up to 70.
    The Aside main screen now in the listening state. The status pill at the top has changed to ‘● LISTENING…’. The orb is the same warm shape, slightly larger and animated with a soft outline. Beneath the orb, replacing the earlier two-line prompt, a single sentence reads ‘I’m listening.’.
    Orb shifts to listening state once the mic activates. The caption beneath the orb says ‘I’m listening.’

  3. See Aside confirm

    Aside replies in both audio and text. The chat history sheet slides up showing your transcribed request, Aside’s spoken reply, and an Aside note chip showing the action that ran — for example set_volume — media 70. If your phone shows a system volume HUD when the level changes, that briefly appears on screen too.

    The Aside main screen with the chat history modal sheet covering the lower half of the screen. The status pill at the top has changed to ‘● READY’. Inside the bottom sheet are three stacked entries: a small mono label ‘YOU’ above the line ‘Turn the media volume up to 70.’; a label ‘ASIDE’ above the line ‘Setting media volume to 70 percent.’; and a clay-tinted ‘ASIDE NOTE’ chip showing ‘▶ media volume: 70%’ — the explicit action marker.
    Aside confirms on screen and aloud. The action chip ‘media volume: 70%’ shows the exact stream and level that were set.

  4. Adjust any of the four streams the same way

    The same shape works for every stream. Try “set the ring volume to 30” if you want incoming calls quieter without muting the music you’re listening to, or “put the alarm volume at 100” when you want to be sure tomorrow morning’s alarm wakes you. Numbers are 0–100; Aside scales that to whatever native step count your phone’s audio system uses.

    Set the ring volume to 30.
    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet now extended with a fourth and fifth entry. Reading top to bottom: ‘YOU — Turn the media volume up to 70.’, ‘ASIDE — Setting media volume to 70 percent.’, ‘ASIDE NOTE — ▶ media volume: 70%’, ‘YOU — Set the ring volume to 30.’, and the beginning of a new ‘ASIDE — Setting ring volume to 30 percent’ entry just visible at the bottom of the sheet.
    Same flow, second stream. The chat history grows by another pair; the ring stream is now at 30 while media stays at 70.
If Aside picks the wrong stream: Be explicit about media, ring, alarm, or notification. “Turn it up” with no stream named is treated as media, which is usually what people mean — but if you were on a phone call and meant call volume, the side rocker keys are still the right tool while a call is active.
Note: Some Android skins display a per-stream volume HUD when the level changes; others only show it for the stream you’re actively using. The level is set either way — the HUD is just visual feedback. If you don’t see a slider on screen, the chat note “set_volume — media 70” is still the source of truth.