How to Type using your Voice

Voice automation is all around us now. Siri and Cortana allows us to speak and make things happen. Some of my co-workers use Alexa to order items from Amazon. I just discovered that that I can use voice typing in Google Docs to automagically generate a first draft of a blog post or other written documents. This is awesome because I am a really bad and slow typist.

What do you need to make this work:

Chrome

Microphone

To use Google Voice Typing:

1. Log onto your Google Account and open a new document
2. Under Tools, select Voice Typing (shown below)

3. A new, small window will open on the left with a microphone icon

4. Click on the microphone when you are ready to start typing and your typed words will appear in your documnet

5. Click on the microphone when you are done speaking/typing or say “Stop listening”

6. There are a variety of editing features like Copy, Paste, Delete. For the full list click here.