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Best ways to install Google voice typing on Android

Megan Martin
Megan Martin
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Google voice typing assists in typing the required documents in Google docs using your voice. If you need to write on Google docs and all you want that someone should do it for you, so, when you need to type on Google docs, you can activate Google voice typing and use it as your writing assistant when you need to speak up the words.

To download and launch Google voice typing or Google docs app on android or iOS, you can go through following settings :


You are required to create a new document or you can also open an existing one document whichever is the requirement.


Tap on the position where you want to type.


You can see an on -screen keyboard prompting up.


Now tap on microphone icon and start voice detection.

As you start dictating, you can see words appear in real time, but if you remain pause for too long, voice recognition gets turned off. This automatic turn off preserves the battery life. You can also turn it off manually by tapping the icon again.

Along with dictation, you can also control Google docs with voice, given following are some excerpts which tell you how to control google docs by voice alone:

Document Navigation:

You often use Go To command and can pair it with the filters like "start of/ end of" or "next"/"previous", some of the commands that you can speak are :


Go to start/end of line.


Go to start/end of row.


Go to start/end of table.


Go to start/end of column.


Go to next/previous line


Go to next/previous page.


Go to next/previous list.

You can also select Text by:


Select All


Select word


Select line


Select next/last line


Select paragraph

You can also take expert help if you need to know further details, you can contact Google voice customer service. The customer service executives are there to help you regarding your requirement. You can contact the customer service for the issues related with Google voice typing and also for the issues that are other than that mentioned above.



Once you have downloaded and launched Google voice, you can also type with your voice:


You can utilize voice type or voice commands, only if computer microphone are on and working.


You can type using your voice:


Open a document in Google Docs using Chrome browser.


Click on tools.


Start voice typing and a microphone box appears.


Click on the microphone if you are ready to speak.


Once you are done, click on the microphone again.

You can also correct mistakes while typing with voice and can also move the cursor to the mistake. You can fix the mistake without turning off the microphone.

Contact Google voice customer service when if you need assistance. You can contact the customer service if you face the following issues:


Unable to detect your voice: make sure you are speaking in the same language that you have set while using the Google voice. If you use voice commands to edit and format the documents, for example, select paragraph, go to the end of line or italics, ensure that account language and document language must both be in English as voice commands are always available in English.


If you get error message regarding having trouble to hear the voice, you can go with following troubleshooting issue and if you are unable to find the solution, contact Google voice customer service:


Go to a quiet place.


Put in an external microphone.


Adjust the input volume on microphone.


Also, try following troubleshooting options :


Speak more clearly and slowly.


Make pause before and after each command.


If you need to undo any command, you can simply utter Undo.

For more help contact Google voice customer service .



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