Google Docs: Dictation via voice improved with the addition of text formatting
The Google Docs web application has been further enhanced, server-side, with the addition of more advanced features for voice dictation.
Last September, Google introduced the ability to dictate text within individual Google Docs applications. In recent days, the functionality has been further enhanced with the voice that can be now also used to impart basic commands.
For example, you can change the text in the presence of errors, or apply some formatting rules. In short, you can write a more finished text without having to resort to the keyboard.
The user can then give voice commands during the writing of a text: for example, can say the words ” select all “, or ” select ” followed by a single word, but also commands such as ” lines up ” or ” center justification “.
It can be written in italics, or bold, superscript or subscript, or decrease or increase the font size or change its color. All without touching either mouse or keyboard, but only and exclusively by speaking the appropriate command.
The new Google Docs feature remembers the implementation of software like Dragon NaturallySpeaking and is very interesting for those times when you cannot use the keyboard and voice commands are the only ways to write a text.
We believe that the dictation mode by voice is essentially slower than the traditional keyboard, and the formatting of the text or its editing, specifically, are quicker in our view with traditional methods.
The new Google Docs feature remembers the implementation of software like Dragon NaturallySpeaking and is very interesting for those times when you cannot use the keyboard and voice commands are the only ways to write a text.
We believe that the dictation mode by voice is essentially slower than the traditional keyboard, and the formatting of the text or its editing, specifically, are quicker in our view with traditional methods.
Google also released a long list of commands that allow you to master the functionality and make the most of all editing operations, and desired formatting. Find everything you need to know on this page, on Google Docs official support site. The function, as we read the page, it is currently only available on the Chrome browser.
