But then, I think Google has really excelled with voice recognition in the past few years (think Google Home, Alexa, and the brilliant ‘ listen to music‘ option that tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it-we use this a lot when there’s interesting background music in a TV show and we want to follow up the artist and performance I might write a blog post on it tomorrow…).
Voice to text fot gogle docs software#
In my testing (reading software information, so slightly technical content), I only had to make a few very minor edits. Check the text created, and edit as required.After you allow the app, a grey microphone will appear as a moveable element on your screen. Google docs will then ask to use your microphone. Here is what we said in our example: Click the microphone again to turn off voice typing. You can add punctuation using voice commands like comma and period. Start talking, and Google will transcribe what it hears. When you have finished, click the red microphone icon again-it will change back to gray. To enable Google voice to text, go to Tools and click, Voice Typing. Click the microphone in the small dialog box that appears.Other accepted commands are ‘exclamation point’, ‘question mark’, ‘new line’, and ‘new paragraph’. As you are speaking, don’t forget to add in the punctuation-say ‘period’ at the end of each sentence and ‘comma’ where you want a comma.Click the gray microphone icon when you’re ready to speak or read your text-the microphone icon will turn red, indicating that you can begin speaking.As you can see from the screenshot, I chose English (Australia).
Voice to text fot gogle docs how to#
Here’s how to transcribe speech into text using Google Docs (these instructions and screenshots are for the Chrome browser on a Windows 7 PC, but other browsers and operating systems should work similarly): Logged into Google Docs on your browser with one of your Google accounts (e.g.A working microphone linked into your computer/device (often comes with your headset or device, or may be separate) and turned on.It’s worth a try, and is heaps cheaper than many other transcription services and software. I spent a few minutes testing it, and after I’d checked the Help on how to add punctuation, the end result was very good. I rarely use Google Docs, and I only learned about this feature today. And if you have access to Google Docs, you have access to free-and surprisingly accurate-speech to text transcription. If you have a Gmail address, a YouTube account, or are signed up to anything ‘Google’, then you have access to Google Docs.
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