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Learn how to use voice typing to enter text by speaking on your PC. Voice typing uses online speech recognition, which is powered by Azure Speech services, and supports multiple languages and commands.
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SpeechTexter is a free multilingual speech-to-text application aimed at assisting you with transcription of notes, documents, books, reports or blog posts by using your voice. This app also features a customizable voice commands list, allowing users to add punctuation marks, frequently used phrases, and some app actions (undo, redo, make a new ...
- Overview
- Step 1: Turn on your microphone
- Type with your voice
- Languages that work with voice typing
- Add punctuation
- Step 3: Use voice commands
- Select text
- Format your document
- Edit your document
- Add and edit tables
You can type and edit by speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes. This feature works with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari browsers.
To use voice typing or voice commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working.
Devices and microphones vary, so check your computer manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the System Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC.
Start voice typing in a document
1. Check that your microphone works.
2. Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.
3. Click Tools Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
Voice typing works in these languages and accents:
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ghana), English (India), English (Ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English (Tanzania), English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish (Uruguay), Spanish (Venezuela), Sundanese, Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Swedish, Tamil (India), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Sri Lanka), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (India), Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Zulu.
You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:
• Period
• Comma
• Exclamation point
• Question mark
• New line
After you start voice typing, you can use commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."
Tips:
• Voice commands are available only in English. The account language and document language must both be English.
• Voice commands are not available in Slides speaker notes.
To select text, say these commands:
• Select [word or phrase]
• Select all
• Select all matching text
• Select list item
• Select list items at current level
To format your document, say these commands: Text formatting
• Apply heading [1–6]
• Apply normal text
• Apply subtitle
• Apply title
• Bold
To edit your document, say these commands:
• Copy
• Cut
• Paste
• Delete
• Delete last word
To add and edit tables, say these commands:
• Insert table
• Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns
• Insert row
• Insert column
• Insert new column
- Justin Pot
- Contributor
- Speech. Windows Speech, often referred to as voice typing, was among the most accurate tools I tested for this article. Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 come with Speech, which you can try out using the keyboard shortcut Windows Key-H anywhere you can type.
- Dictate. You can dictate text in Microsoft Office by clicking the prominent Dictate button in all versions of Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, and Outlook. This brings the excellent engine Microsoft offers all Windows users, complete with the auto-punctuation feature, to just about every major operating system—the web, Android, iOS, and macOS versions of Office all include this dictation feature.
- Dictation. Apple has included Dictation in macOS since 2012. To enable the feature, head to System Settings > Keyboard and scroll down to Dictation, where you can also set a keyboard shortcut.
- Dictation (Mobile) $0.00 at Apple App Store. See It. If you use the default keyboard on the iPhone and iPad, there's a microphone icon to the left of the space bar (as shown in the image) or sometimes below the space bar on the right side, that you can tap to use dictation.
Looking for a free alternative to Dragon Naturally speaking for speech recognition? Voice Notepad lets you type with your voice in any language.
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to use voice typing with Windows 11, Microsoft Office apps like Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, and even Google Docs.
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