Currently, the tool's only available for Docs and for adding speaker notes to Slides. Try to access the option in any other browser and you'll find it greyed out. The biggest irritation is that Voice Typing is locked to Chrome. Visit Google's support page for the full list of voice instructions. This helps maintain your flow, rather than breaking it as you pause to grab the mouse. You can highlight words, insert tables and shift around the page by ordering the cursor to relevant sections. There's more to Voice Typing than actual typing. You can also use the 'Delete ' command to make corrections on the fly. With any free voice dictation software, it's recommended you run through the content afterwards, manually correcting mistakes – Google Voice Typing's impressive accuracy makes that job a lot easier, especially since right-clicking underlined words displays possible suggestions for misheard words. Out of 84 words, Google Docs scored an average three errors typically two typos and a dropped word. We tested each tool by reading the opening paragraph of Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep' five times, using both built-in and external microphones. And Google is, by far, the most accurate of all contenders in this roundup. The tool is reasonably fast – there's a slight lag, because it uses cloud processing to figure out exactly what you're saying – but after a second or so, your words, punctuation and even formatting appear on the page. Getting started with voice typing in Google Docs is as straightforward as you'd expect from a company whose home page is a white screen with a search bar: once you've opened a document, and selected 'Voice typing' from the drop-down Tools menu, just click the on-screen microphone and speak.
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