You can now type in a Google Docs file using your voice
Note: This feature is only available in Chrome browsers.
Start voice typing
- Check that your microphone works.
- Open a document in Google docs with a Chrome browser.
- Click Tools > Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
- When you’re ready to speak, click the microphone.
- Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
- When you’re done, click the microphone again.
Correct mistakes while voice typing
- If you make a mistake while you’re typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.
- After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.
- To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in grey.
You can use these phrases to add punctuation to your text:
- Period
- Comma
- Exclamation point
- Question mark
- New line
- New paragraph
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 next [number] characters
- Select last character
- Select last [number] characters
- Select line
- Select next line
- Select next [number] lines
- Select last line
- Select last [number] lines
- Select paragraph
- Select next paragraph
- Select next [number] paragraphs
- Select last paragraph
- Select last [number] paragraphs
- Select word
- Select next word
- Select next [number] words
- Select last word
- Select last [number] words
- Deselect
- Unselect
- Select none
To format your document, say these commands:
Alignment
- Align center
- Align justified
- Align left
- Align right
- Center align
- Left align
- Right align
Text formatting
- Apply heading [1–6]
- Apply normal text
- Apply subtitle
- Apply title
- Bold
- Italicize
- Italics
- Strikethrough
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Underline
Text color and highlighting
- Text color [color]
- Highlight
- Highlight [color]
- Background color [color]
- Remove highlight
- Remove background color
Note: The colors available are: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta. If you 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
- Decrease indent
- Increase indent
- Line spacing [1-100]
- Line spacing double
- Line spacing single
Lists
- Create bulleted list
- Create numbered list
- Insert bullet
- Insert number
Remove formatting
- Clear formatting
- Remove formatting
- Remove bold
- Remove italics
- Remove strikethrough
- Remove underline
To edit your document, say these commands:
- Copy
- Cut
- Paste
- Copy link
- Delete
- Delete last word
- Delete link
- Insert table of contents
- Delete table of contents
- Update table of contents
- Insert bookmark
- Insert equation
- Insert footer
- Insert footnote
- Insert header
- Insert horizontal line
- Insert page break
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
To move around your document, say these commands:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |
---|---|---|
Example: Go to | end of | paragraph |
Go to Move to | end of start of | paragraph column line row table document |
Go to Move to | next previous | character column footnote formatting change heading heading [1-6] image line link list list item misspelling paragraph row table word page |
Go Move | forward backward | [number] characters [number] words |
Go Move | up down | [number] lines [number] paragraphs |
Scroll
- Scroll down
- Scroll up
To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say “Resume.”
To move the cursor to a particular word or phrase, say “Resume with [word].” The cursor moves to the end of the word that you speak.
Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:
- Resume
- Resume with [word or phrase]
- Go to the end of the paragraph
- Move to the end of the paragraph
- Go to the end of the line
- Move to the end of the line
To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:
- Voice typing help
- Voice commands list
- See all voice commands
These commands obtained from :
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226?hl=en
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