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Steps To Use Voice Typing Using Google Keyboard

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Let’s be clear that “voice typing” really means dictation. One reason for the rebranding of the term may be because the experience feels different than previous, clunkier versions of dictation tools. This Gboard and Voice Typing are sophisticated enough to give you options of what it believes you said by underlining words and phrases.

How To Activate Voice Typing

  • Open Google Playstore and search for gboard in the search bar.
  • Install the Gboard – Google Keyboard application.
  • Now after the application gets installed, you need to open the app and go through the process of setting it up.
  • When you tap on the app icon after installing, it show an option enable in settings, click on it and you will be directed to settings page.
  • It will direct you to the ‘language & input’ page in the settings section of your device.
  • Now enable Gboard by tapping on the toggle option present next to Gboard.
  • Now, a popup will show up and just tap on ok to continue.
  • Next, it will show a select input method option, just click on it and select Gboard as the input method.
  • Then after setting up the input method, it will ask you to set up permissions, click on that.
  • It will ask you to grant a few permissions to Gboard which you should do.
  • Then finally click on done.
  • After you finish this, just tap on voice typing, then click on languages to add languages you wish to add and finally save.

Talk to write

  1. Open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.
  2. Tap an area where you can enter text.
  3. At the top of your keyboard, touch and hold Microphone.
  4. When you see “Speak now,” say what you want written.

Replace a word

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the document or message with the word you want to change.
  2. Touch and hold the word.
  3. At the top of your keyboard, tap Microphone.
  4. When you see “Speak now,” say the new word.

Happy Typing!!!! Sorry Happy Speaking!!!

Some Awesome Google Keyboard Features That You May Not Know

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Google keyboard might be the default keyboard that is available for may stock Android devices, whereas many other mobile makers will have their very own keyboards. But, this android keyboard has lots of features that you might not be aware of. So, now I am going to tell you, in brief, some of the awesome features that might be useful to you.

Interesting Google Keyboard features:

  • With the phone getting bigger, it might be sometimes uneasy or difficult for typing, this Google keyboard has a solution for that, it has a one-handed operation. This keyboard feature can be enabled by long pressing the comma key or the enter key. Then slide up to the icon that looks like a hand holding a phone and the phone’s keyboard will shift over. There will be a key on the side to shift the side and also a key to get back to the two-handed keyboard.
  • There are quite a lot of gestures available in the Google keyboard, Stop fumbling with the cursor and just swipe across the spacebar to make it easier. Another one is just sliding the delete key to the left will automatically delete the selected words after you release the key.
  • Phones come in various sizes and shapes and the size of the keyboard may be a little big sometimes for your device, in such instances you can adjust the size of the keyboard. You will have this setting under the android keyboard
Keyboard Settings > Preferences > Keyboard Height
  • You can change the look of the keyboard with the recent updates of the keyboard for the Android versions of 5.1 or newer. There are color themes that you can select and even a toggle key to enable key borders.
  • This Google’s Android keyboard has the number keypad that can be enabled by just tapping the special character key on the lower left corner of the keyboard and then the key with the numbers1-4just to the left of the spacebar, you will be presented with the number pad keyboard which consists of numbers with few numerical symbols.

So, I hope you make use of these awesome keyboard features.