Type with your voiceYou can type and edit by speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes. Show
Tip: This feature is only available in Chrome browsers. Step 1: Turn on your microphoneTo use voice typing or voice commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working. Devices and microphones vary, so check your computer manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the System Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC. Step 2: Use voice typingType with your voiceStart voice typing in a document
Start voice typing in Slides speaker notes
Correct mistakes while voice typing
Languages that work with voice typingVoice typing works in these languages and accents: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ghana), English (India), English (Ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English (Tanzania), English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish (Uruguay), Spanish (Venezuela), Sundanese, Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Swedish, Tamil (India), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Sri Lanka), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (India), Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Zulu. Add punctuationYou can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:
Step 3: Use voice commandsAfter you start voice typing, you can use commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."Tips:
Select textTo select text, say these commands:
Format your documentTo format your document, say these commands:
Text formatting
Text color and highlighting
Tip: The colors available are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, purple, magenta, black, white, and gray. For all colors except black and white, you can add "light" or "dark" along with numbers 1-3 (for gray, 1-4), such as "dark purple 3." If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.
Font size
Paragraph formatting
Alignment
Columns
Lists
Remove formatting
Edit your documentTo edit your document, say these commands:
Tips:
Add and edit tablesTo add and edit tables, say these commands:
Move around your documentTo move around your document, say these commands: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3Example: Go to end of paragraphGo 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
Stop voice typingTo stop voice typing, say "Stop listening."
Resume voice typingTo move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say "Resume." To move the cursor to the end of a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word or phrase]." Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:
To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:
To use these commands, turn on screen reader support. It's best to wear headphones so the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your document.
TroubleshootIf voice typing isn't working, try these steps. "We're having trouble hearing you"If you see an error message that says "We're having trouble hearing you," try the following:
The microphone isn't workingIf you can't get the microphone to work on your computer, try the following:
Voice commands aren't workingIf voice commands arent working, try the following:
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