Working with Text
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Dictating Text
Google Voice Typing lets you dictate text
instead of typing on the onscreen key-
board. Dictation works with text areas in
any app, without special setup or voice
training. (For third-party apps, no additional
developer support is required.) To practice,
try dictating a message in Gmail.
To turn on and configure dictation:
1.
Tap Settings > Languages & Input.
2.
To toggle dictation, tap Google Voice
Typing.
When dictation is turned on, the key
appears on the onscreen keyboard.
3.
To configure dictation, tap
next to
Google Voice Typing.
You can enable other dictation lan-
guages, replace naughty words with
asterisks, and enable offline dictation.
When you dictate while you’re con-
nected to the Internet, what you say is sent
to Google’s speech-recognition service for
conversion to text. Offline dictation is less
accurate then online dictation.
