Type with your voice

You lot can type and edit past speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes.

Tip: This characteristic is only available in Chrome browsers.

Step one: Turn on your microphone

To utilise voice typing or vox commands, your reckoner microphone needs to be on and working.

Devices and microphones vary, so check your reckoner manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the Arrangement Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC.

Step 2: Use voice typing

Blazon with your voice

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 and then Vox typing. A microphone box appears.
  4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
  5. Speak clearly, at a normal book and stride (encounter below for more information on using punctuation).
  6. When you lot're done, click the microphone once more.

Kickoff phonation typing in Slides speaker notes

  1. Cheque that your microphone works.
  2. Open a presentation in Google Slides with a Chrome browser.
  3. Click Tools and then Vox type speaker notes. The speaker notes open, and a microphone box appears.
  4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
  5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (run across below for more than information on using punctuation).
  6. When you're done, click the microphone once again.

Correct mistakes while phonation typing

  • If you lot make a mistake while y'all're typing with your voice, you tin can motion your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.
  • After yous right the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to proceed.
  • To see a list of suggestions, correct-click words underlined in greyness.

Languages that piece of work with voice typing

Voice typing works in these languages and accents:

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Standard arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Standard arabic (Kuwait), Standard arabic (Lebanese republic), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Standard arabic (Saudi Arabia), Standard arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Republic of indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (Republic of india), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croation, 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 (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italia), 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 (Republic of chile), Spanish (Republic of colombia), Spanish (Costa rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Espana), Castilian (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Castilian (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Castilian (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Castilian (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Castilian (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.

Add punctuation

You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every linguistic communication:

  • Period
  • Comma
  • Assertion signal
  • Question mark
  • New line
  • New paragraph

Footstep three: Employ voice commands

After yous 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 bachelor only in English language. The account language and document language must both be English.
  • Voice commands are not available in Slides speaker notes.

Select text

To select text, say these commands:

  • Select [word or phrase]
  • Select all
  • Select all matching text
  • Select list item
  • Select listing items at current level
  • Select next grapheme
  • Select next [number] characters
  • Select final character
  • Select terminal [number] characters
  • Select line
  • Select side by side line
  • Select side by side [number] lines
  • Select last line
  • Select final [number] lines
  • Select paragraph
  • Select side by side paragraph
  • Select next [number] paragraphs
  • Select last paragraph
  • Select last [number] paragraphs
  • Select word
  • Select adjacent give-and-take
  • Select next [number] words
  • Select last word
  • Select last [number] words
  • Deselect
  • Unselect
  • Select none

Format your certificate

To format your document, say these commands:

Text formatting

  • Apply heading [1–6]
  • Apply normal text
  • Use subtitle
  • Apply championship
  • Bold
  • Italicize
  • Italics
  • Strikethrough
  • Subscript
  • Superscript
  • Underline
  • Uppercase
  • Championship case
  • Lowercase

Text color and highlighting

  • Text color [color]
  • Highlight
  • Highlight [color]
  • Groundwork color [color]
  • Remove highlight
  • Remove background color

Tip: The colors bachelor are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, majestic, magenta, black, white, and greyness. For all colors except black and white, you can add together "light" or "dark" along with numbers 1-3 (for gray, i-4), such as "night purple 3." If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is xanthous.

Font size

  • Decrease font size
  • Increase font size
  • Font size [six-400]
  • Brand bigger
  • Brand smaller

Paragraph formatting

  • Subtract indent
  • Increase indent
  • Line spacing [1-100]
  • Line spacing double
  • Line spacing single

Alignment

  • Align centre
  • Align justified
  • Align left
  • Align right
  • Center align
  • Left align
  • Right align

Columns

  • Utilize 1 column
  • Apply 2 columns
  • Apply three columns
  • Column options
  • Insert column suspension

Lists

  • Create bulleted listing
  • Create numbered list
  • Insert bullet
  • Insert number

Remove formatting

  • Clear formatting
  • Remove formatting
  • Remove bold
  • Remove italics
  • Remove strikethrough
  • Remove underline

Edit your certificate

To edit your document, say these commands:

  • Re-create
  • Cut
  • Paste
  • Delete
  • Delete last word
  • Delete [discussion or phrase]
  • Insert link [and so say the URL you desire to use]
  • Copy link
  • Delete link
  • Insert table of contents
  • Delete table of contents
  • Update tabular array of contents
  • Insert annotate [then say your comment]
  • Insert bookmark
  • Insert equation
  • Insert footer
  • Insert footnote
  • Insert header
  • Insert horizontal line
  • Insert page break

Tips:

  • If you say "Delete" by itself, you delete the word before the cursor.
  • If you select the text of a URL and say "Insert link," the selected text becomes a hyperlink.

Add and edit tables

To add and edit tables, say these commands:

  • Insert table
  • Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns
  • Insert row
  • Insert cavalcade
  • Insert new cavalcade
  • Insert new column on the left
  • Insert new row
  • Insert new row above
  • Insert new row below
  • Delete cavalcade
  • Delete row
  • Delete table
  • Remove column
  • Remove row
  • Remove table
  • Go out table

Motility effectually your document

To move effectually your document, say these commands:

Function 1 Office 2 Office three

Case:

Go to

cease of paragraph

Go to

Movement to

finish of

start of

paragraph

cavalcade

line

row

tabular array

document

Go to

Move to

next

previous

character

column

footnote

formatting modify

heading

heading [i-6]

prototype

line

link

listing

list detail

misspelling

paragraph

row

table

word

page

Go

Move

forward

backward

[number] characters

[number] words

Go

Move

up

downwards

[number] lines

[number] paragraphs

Scroll

  • Scroll downwardly
  • Scroll upwards

End vocalisation typing

To terminate vocalism typing, say "Stop listening."

Resume voice typing

To move the cursor to the cease of the paragraph and outset vocalization typing once more, say "Resume."

To motility the cursor to the end of a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word or phrase]."

Hither are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:

  • Resume
  • Resume with [give-and-take or phrase]
  • Become to the end of the paragraph
  • Motion to the end of the paragraph
  • Go to the end of the line
  • Move to the end of the line
  • Get to [word]

Commands to open help

To open up a listing of voice commands in your document, say these commands:

  • Voice typing assistance
  • Vocalism commands listing
  • Encounter all voice commands

Speak (for accessibility)

To utilize these commands, turn on screen reader support. It's best to wear headphones so the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your certificate.

  • Speak cursor location
  • Speak from cursor location
  • Speak selection
  • Speak selection formatting
  • Speak table row and column headers
  • Speak table cell location
  • Speak table column header
  • Speak table row header

Troubleshoot

If vocalization typing isn't working, effort these steps.

"We're having trouble hearing yous"

If you run across an error message that says "We're having problem hearing y'all," endeavor the post-obit:

  • Move to a serenity room.
  • Plug in an external microphone.
  • Arrange the input volume on your microphone.

The microphone isn't working

If y'all can't get the microphone to work on your computer, try the post-obit:

  • Make sure that the microphone isn't cleaved.
  • Bank check your microphone settings in your figurer system preferences.
  • Bank check that your microphone is plugged in and is not beingness used by another application.
  • Move to a quiet room.
  • Restart your computer.

Vocalization commands aren't working

If voice commands aren't working, try the post-obit:

  • Speak more slowly and clearly
  • Break earlier and later on each control. The text of your command might show in the certificate for a moment. For example, if yous say "select all," the words "select all" show upwardly before your text is selected.
  • The microphone shows a bubble containing the nearly recent command. Verify that Docs or Slides heard the right control. If not, you can but say "Disengage."

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