Say “Hey Siri, send an SOS with Vygard” on iPhone, or use the Vygard “Send SOS” shortcut with Google Assistant on Android, and the same alarm the button sends goes out with your location. On iPhone it fires even when the phone is locked, so your hands and your screen don't have to be free. In the Vygard app from v1.5.0.
Vygard uses the voice assistant already built into the phone, Siri on iPhone and Google Assistant on Android, rather than a microphone of its own. That is the one kind of voice trigger that is always listening, works when the phone is locked, and doesn't drain the battery.
On iPhone the Vygard SOS is ready for Siri as soon as the app is installed. On Android, add the Vygard “Send SOS” shortcut to Google Assistant. You can also point the iPhone Action Button or Back Tap at it.
“Hey Siri, send an SOS with Vygard”, or “Hey Google, send an SOS with Vygard”. The phrase names the app on purpose, so it can't fire by accident in conversation.
It raises the exact same alarm as the on-screen SOS: your live location, then the full escalation cascade to your responders and, if configured, an ARC.
On iPhone the SOS is allowed to fire with the phone locked, so an injured or trapped worker doesn't have to unlock the handset to raise the alarm.
“Hey Siri, send an SOS with Vygard”
Also works: “Hey Siri, Vygard emergency”. On the consumer apps, name the app you have, for example “...with Vygard Sports” or “...with Vygard Family”. No setup needed, and it fires even when the phone is locked.
Long-press the Vygard icon → “Send SOS”
The “Send SOS” shortcut is live on the app icon and can be added to Google Assistant. Full “Hey Google, send an SOS” voice phrasing is rolling out in a following update.
Siri and Google Assistant listen at the operating-system level, always on and even when the phone is locked. A third-party app cannot do that dependably on a modern phone, so Vygard uses the triggers that can.
No Vygard microphone running in the background, draining the battery or always recording. The assistant you already trust handles the voice; Vygard only ever receives the SOS event itself.
If there's no signal the SOS is saved and sent the moment signal returns, and off-grid it routes over a paired satellite communicator, exactly as the on-screen button does.
Honest about what it is: voice triggering needs Siri or Google Assistant reachable, so it is a powerful hands-free option for when you cannot reach the screen, working alongside, not instead of, the physical SOS button and automatic fall and man-down detection.
Hands on a chainsaw, gloves on. “Hey Siri, send an SOS with Vygard” needs neither hand free and no reach for the phone.
A carer in a client's home can call for help by voice, without reaching for a phone or showing a panic button to a confused or aggressive patient.
Hands stay on the wheel. A spoken SOS keeps the driver legal on hands-free law and still one phrase away from help.
Fire an SOS in the sandboxed demo tenant and watch it flow through the dispatch cascade to responders in seconds.