Type with your voice

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

Tip: This feature is just available in Chrome browsers.

Step i: Turn on your microphone

To use vocalisation typing or vocalism commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working.

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

Stride 2: Utilise phonation typing

Type with your vox

Start voice typing in a document

  1. Bank check that your microphone works.
  2. Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.
  3. Click Tools and then Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
  4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
  5. Speak conspicuously, at a normal volume and pace (meet beneath for more information on using punctuation).
  6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Commencement voice 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 Vocalisation type speaker notes. The speaker notes open up, and a microphone box appears.
  4. When you lot're gear up to speak, click the microphone.
  5. Speak conspicuously, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more data on using punctuation).
  6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Correct mistakes while voice typing

  • If you make a error while you lot're typing with your voice, you can move 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 keep.
  • To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in gray.

Languages that work with voice typing

Voice typing works in these languages and accents:

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Standard arabic (Bahrain), Standard arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Standard arabic (Jordan), Standard arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Republic of indonesia, Basque, Bengali (People's republic of bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English language (Canada), English language (Ghana), English (Republic of india), English (Republic of ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English language (Tanzania), English language (UK), English language (United states of america), 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, Marä thi, Nepali, Norwegian, Smooth, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanaian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Castilian (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Castilian (Chile), Spanish (Republic of colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Castilian (El salvador), Spanish (Spain), Castilian (US), Castilian (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Castilian (Uruguay), Castilian (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 tin use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:

  • Flow
  • Comma
  • Exclamation indicate
  • Question mark
  • New line
  • New paragraph

Step 3: Employ voice commands

Afterward you start voice typing, you can utilize commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."

Tips:

  • Vocalism commands are available merely in English. The business relationship language and document linguistic communication must both be English.
  • Vocalism commands are not bachelor 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 list items at current level
  • Select next character
  • Select adjacent [number] characters
  • Select final graphic symbol
  • Select last [number] characters
  • Select line
  • Select adjacent line
  • Select adjacent [number] lines
  • Select terminal line
  • Select final [number] lines
  • Select paragraph
  • Select adjacent paragraph
  • Select adjacent [number] paragraphs
  • Select final paragraph
  • Select terminal [number] paragraphs
  • Select word
  • Select next word
  • Select next [number] words
  • Select final word
  • Select terminal [number] words
  • Deselect
  • Unselect
  • Select none

Format your certificate

To format your document, say these commands:

Text formatting

  • Apply heading [1–six]
  • Apply normal text
  • Apply subtitle
  • Use title
  • Bold
  • Italicize
  • Italics
  • Strikethrough
  • Subscript
  • Superscript
  • Underline
  • Uppercase
  • Championship example
  • Lowercase

Text color and highlighting

  • Text colour [colour]
  • Highlight
  • Highlight [color]
  • Background color [color]
  • Remove highlight
  • Remove background color

Tip: The colors available are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, greenish, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, regal, magenta, black, white, and gray. For all colors except black and white, you can add together "light" or "nighttime" along with numbers 1-3 (for grey, 1-4), such as "nighttime purple three." If y'all say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.

Font size

  • Decrease font size
  • Increase font size
  • Font size [6-400]
  • Make bigger
  • Make smaller

Paragraph formatting

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

Alignment

  • Marshal center
  • Marshal justified
  • Align left
  • Align right
  • Center align
  • Left align
  • Right align

Columns

  • Apply one cavalcade
  • Utilise two columns
  • Employ three columns
  • Column options
  • Insert column break

Lists

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

Remove formatting

  • Articulate formatting
  • Remove formatting
  • Remove assuming
  • Remove italics
  • Remove strikethrough
  • Remove underline

Edit your document

To edit your document, say these commands:

  • Copy
  • Cut
  • Paste
  • Delete
  • Delete terminal word
  • Delete [word or phrase]
  • Insert link [then say the URL you want to use]
  • Copy link
  • Delete link
  • Insert table of contents
  • Delete tabular array of contents
  • Update table of contents
  • Insert comment [then say your comment]
  • Insert bookmark
  • Insert equation
  • Insert footer
  • Insert footnote
  • Insert header
  • Insert horizontal line
  • Insert folio interruption

Tips:

  • If you say "Delete" by itself, you delete the word earlier the cursor.
  • If y'all 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 column
  • Insert new column
  • Insert new column on the left
  • Insert new row
  • Insert new row above
  • Insert new row below
  • Delete column
  • Delete row
  • Delete table
  • Remove column
  • Remove row
  • Remove table
  • Exit table

Motility around your document

To movement around your document, say these commands:

Part 1 Function 2 Part 3

Case:

Go to

end of paragraph

Go to

Motion to

end of

start of

paragraph

column

line

row

table

certificate

Go to

Move to

next

previous

character

cavalcade

footnote

formatting change

heading

heading [one-6]

image

line

link

list

listing particular

misspelling

paragraph

row

table

discussion

page

Become

Motion

forwards

astern

[number] characters

[number] words

Go

Move

upward

downward

[number] lines

[number] paragraphs

Scroll

  • Scroll down
  • Scroll up

End phonation typing

To cease vox typing, say "Stop listening."

Resume voice typing

To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and outset voice typing again, say "Resume."

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

Here are all the commands you tin say to resume voice typing:

  • Resume
  • Resume with [word or phrase]
  • Go to the end of the paragraph
  • Move to the finish of the paragraph
  • Go to the cease of the line
  • Move to the stop of the line
  • Become to [word]

Commands to open help

To open a list of phonation commands in your document, say these commands:

  • Voice typing help
  • Vox commands listing
  • Meet all voice commands

Speak (for accessibility)

To utilise these commands, plow on screen reader support. Information technology's best to vesture headphones and then the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your document.

  • Speak cursor location
  • Speak from cursor location
  • Speak pick
  • Speak option formatting
  • Speak tabular array row and cavalcade headers
  • Speak table prison cell location
  • Speak table cavalcade header
  • Speak tabular array row header

Troubleshoot

If voice typing isn't working, try these steps.

"Nosotros're having trouble hearing you"

If you see an mistake bulletin that says "We're having trouble hearing you," try the following:

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

The microphone isn't working

If yous tin't get the microphone to work on your computer, endeavor the post-obit:

  • Make sure that the microphone isn't broken.
  • Cheque your microphone settings in your computer system preferences.
  • Check that your microphone is plugged in and is not being used past some other awarding.
  • Move to a tranquillity room.
  • Restart your estimator.

Vocalization commands aren't working

If voice commands aren't working, try the following:

  • Speak more slowly and clearly
  • Interruption before and afterward each command. The text of your command might show in the document for a moment. For example, if you say "select all," the words "select all" evidence upwardly earlier your text is selected.
  • The microphone shows a bubble containing the almost recent command. Verify that Docs or Slides heard the right command. If not, you can simply say "Undo."

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