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Googles overly aggressive voice-to-text setting is auto-punctuating poorly, users complain

• By Kim Lyons
• on February 7, 2020 10:26 am

If you ever wanted to send text messages with weird punctuation like someone who is new to thumb-typing, Googles voice-to-text settings were able to do it for you, Android Police reported.

Googles voice typing used to only add punctuation when the speaker asked for it specifically (by saying comma or period, etc.), but after an update last month, the app started adding punctuation automatically. And judging by the 400-plus comments on a support forum post, it was not working well.

A Google spokesperson now tells The Verge that we were able to identify the issue and pushed out a fix over the weekend that will be rolling out to all users over the next few days.

The complaints indicate that if you paused too long while speaking into your phone, you may end up with a random period in the middle of a sentence or weird capitalization when the app thinks youre starting a new sentence. An example from the support forum:

The same thing is happening to me and it is so annoying! I use Voice to Text due to a disability. And it keeps putting in punctuation. Where I dont want it. Google please fix. This

Gboard dictation didnt appear to be affected, Android Police found. The fix seems to be confined to Googles voice typing mode, which doesnt have an on-screen keyboard connected to it.

You cant turn off the automatically added punctuation. But if youre really determined to kill this feature before the updates roll out, there is a workaround: uninstall all updates for the Google app on your phone. Which isnt. Very. Convenient but at least. Your sentences wont look Like. This.

Update February 10th, 2:11 PM ET: Google says a fix for the punctuation problem is on the way.

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