How to Use Voice Typing

You can dictate text into email, notes, and other apps that accept text input. Google Voice Typing is available when the Google Keyboard shows the microphone key. If the microphone key is not visible, voice typing is not available for that text input field.

By default, voice typing is enabled and offensive words are blocked. Your device must be connected to the Internet for voice typing in most languages. However, Android Android supports offline voice typing for some languages. To customize voice typing, go to Settings > Language & input > Google voice typing.

Voice typing is a standard Android feature.

How to Use Voice Typing

1. Tap any text input field to open the Google Keyboard.
2. Tap the Keyboard icon in the bottom right corner .
3. Select Google voice typing.
   
4. At the prompt , speak. When you pause, your words are transcribed. Underlined words might have transcription errors. A Delete prompt also shows for a brief period of time.

• To delete the transcription, tap Delete.
• To view suggestions and replace an underlined word, tap the underlined word.
• To return to the keyboard, tap the prompt to pause voice typing, and then tap the Keyboard icon .

NOTE  In English, you can add punctuation by speaking. For example, as you speak, say"comma" or "period" to add the punctuation where you want it.

How to Allow Offensive Words

By default, Google Voice Typing does not transcribe or suggest some words.

1. Go to Settings > Personal > Language & Input.
2. In Keyboard & input methods, tap the Google voice typing.
3. Turn off Block Offensive Words.

How to Add Languages

1. Go to Settings > Personal > Language & Input.
2. Under Keyboard & input methods, tap Google voice typing.
3. Under Languages, tap the languages that you want voice typing to recognize and Save.

How to Use Offline Voice Typing

Offline voice typing is available for some languages. Only words that are included in the language dictionary are available for voice typing.

1. Go to Settings > Personal > Language & Input.
2. Under Keyboard & input methods, tap the Google voice typing.
3. Tap Offline Speech Recognition.
4. Tap All. The list of supported languages opens.
5. Tap a language.
6. At the prompt, tap Download. The device downloads and installs the correct language dictionary.