Next to those dots you can click the X to close it. You can drag it around with the three horizontal dots at the top. This will open a little tab with a microphone and a dropdown menu. The Voice typing menu item is the tenth item from the top, or the fourth from the bottom. Or you can use the Ctrl+Shift+S (on Windows) or Command+Shift+S (on Mac) shortcut to activate it. You can activate speech-to-text from the Tools menu – it is the fourth menu item from the bottom. Do note, though, that this feature is available only if you're using Google's Chrome browser. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use speech-to-text in Google Docs. Or you can also use it if you like to think out loud and transcribe what you say. Here are the punctuation characters and symbols you can dictate.Speech-to-Text is a really useful accessibility tool if typing is difficult for you. For example, “uppercase A” or “uppercase alpha.” When you’re done, say “stop spelling.”

To dictate an uppercase letter, say “uppercase” before the letter. To dictate letters and symbols, say 'start spelling.' Then say the symbol or letter, or use the ICAO phonetic alphabet. You can dictate most numbers and punctuation by saying the number or punctuation character. Select the next three words select the previous two paragraphsĭictating letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols Move to the end of the word go to the end of the paragraphĮnter one of the following keys: Tab, Enter, End, Home, Page up, Page down, Backspace, Delete Moves the cursor to the end of a text unit Move forward to the next word go down to the next paragraph Move the cursor forward to the next unit of text Move the cursor to the start of a text unit Move the cursor to the first character before a specified word or phrase Move back to the previous word go up to the previous paragraph Move the cursor backward by a unit of text Go after word move after word go to the end of that move to the end of paragraph Move the cursor to the end of a unit of text Go after that move after word go to the end of paragraph move to the end of that Move the cursor to the first character after a specified word or phrase Replace it with similar words to get the result you want.ĭelete the most recent dictation result or currently selected textĭelete a unit of text, such as the current word If a word or phrase is in bold, it's an example. The following table tells you what you can say. Use dictation commands to tell you PC what to do, like “delete that” or “select the previous word.” To use dictation, your PC needs to be connected to the internet. Greater than sign, right/close angle bracket Vertical bar sign/character, pipe character

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