You ever wish you could have speech recognition for Ubuntu? Now you can with the Chrome Browser and Google Docs. This one is really easy to do.
1. Make sure you have a Google Account (Gmail) and enabled Google Docs with this account.
2. Install the Chrome Browser.
3. Open a Google Docs in the Chrome Browser.
That's It. Google, now has built-in Speech Recognition in Google Docs while using the Chrome Browser.
Here's how to start the Speech Recognition Module and what formating/edit commands you can use. (This is from the Help File on Google's site)
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Type with your voice
You can type and edit a document by speaking in Google Docs.
Note: This feature is only available in Chrome browsers.
Voice typing
Start voice typing
- Check that your microphone works.
- Open a document in Google docs with a Chrome browser.
- Click Tools > Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
- When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
- Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
- When you're done, click the microphone again.
Correct mistakes while voice typing
- If you make a mistake while you're typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.
- After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.
- To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in gray.
You can use these phrases to add punctuation to your text:
- Period
- Comma
- Exclamation point
- Question mark
- New line
- New paragraph
Note: Punctuation works in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian.
Voice commands
You can use commands to edit and format your document when you voice type. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."
Note: Voice commands are available only in English. The account language and document language must both be English.
To select text, say these commands:
- Select [word or phrase]
- Select all
- Select all matching text
- Select list item
- Select list items at current level
- Select next character
- Select next [number] characters
- Select last character
- Select last [number] characters
- Select line
- Select next line
- Select next [number] lines
- Select last line
- Select last [number] lines
- Select paragraph
- Select next paragraph
- Select next [number] paragraphs
- Select last paragraph
- Select last [number] paragraphs
- Select word
- Select next word
- Select next [number] words
- Select last word
- Select last [number] words
- Deselect
- Unselect
- Select none
To format your document, say these commands:
Alignment
- Align center
- Align justified
- Align left
- Align right
- Center align
- Left align
- Right align
Text formatting
- Apply heading [1–6]
- Apply normal text
- Apply subtitle
- Apply title
- Bold
- Italicize
- Italics
- Strikethrough
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Underline
Text color and highlighting
- Text color [color]
- Highlight
- Highlight [color]
- Background color [color]
- Remove highlight
- Remove background color
Note: The colors available are: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta. If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.
Font size
- Decrease font size
- Increase font size
- Font size [6-400]
- Make bigger
- Make smaller
Paragraph formatting
- Decrease indent
- Increase indent
- Line spacing [1-100]
- Line spacing double
- Line spacing single
Lists
- Create bulleted list
- Create numbered list
- Insert bullet
- Insert number
Remove formatting
- Clear formatting
- Remove formatting
- Remove bold
- Remove italics
- Remove strikethrough
- Remove underline
To edit your document, say these commands:
- Copy
- Cut
- Paste
- Copy link
- Delete
- Delete last word
- Delete link
- Insert table of contents
- Delete table of contents
- Update table of contents
- Insert bookmark
- Insert equation
- Insert footer
- Insert footnote
- Insert header
- Insert horizontal line
- Insert page break
To add and edit tables, say these commands:
- Insert table
- Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns
- Insert row
- Insert column
- Insert new column
- Insert new column on the left
- Insert new row
- Insert new row above
- Insert new row below
- Delete column
- Delete row
- Delete table
- Remove column
- Remove row
- Remove table
- Exit table
To move around your document, say these commands:
| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |
|---|
Example:
Go to
| end of | paragraph |
Go to
Move to
|
end of
start of
|
paragraph
column
line
row
table
document
|
Go to
Move to
|
next
previous
|
character
column
footnote
formatting change
heading
heading [1-6]
image
line
link
list
list item
misspelling
paragraph
row
table
word
page
|
Go
Move
|
forward
backward
|
[number] characters
[number] words
|
Go
Move
|
up
down
|
[number] lines
[number] paragraphs
|
Scroll
To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say "Resume."
To move the cursor to a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word]." The cursor moves to the end of the word that you speak.
Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:
- Resume
- Resume with [word or phrase]
- Go to the end of the paragraph
- Move to the end of the paragraph
- Go to the end of the line
- Move to the end of the line
To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:
- Voice typing help
- Voice commands list
- See all voice commands
- Speak cursor location
- Speak from cursor location
- Speak selection
- Speak selection formatting
- Speak table row and column headers
- Speak table cell location
- Speak table column header
- Speak table row header
