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To change your ta blet’s noticat ion sounds, vol-
umes, and more, go to Settings > Device >
Sound.
To change your tablet’s brig htness, font size, and
more, go to Settings > Device > Display.
Type text by speaking
You can speak to enter text in most p laces that you ca n enter text
with the onscreen keyboa rd.
1. Touch a tex t eld, or a locat ion in tex t you’ve alr eady entere d
in a text eld.
2. Touc h the Microphone key on the onsc reen keyboard .
3. W hen you see the microphon e image, speak what you want
to type.
say “comma,” “period ,” “question mark,” “excl amation mark,” or
“exclamation point” to enter punctuation.
When you pause, what you sp oke is transcr ibed by the sp eech- rec-
ognition service an d entered in the tex t eld, under lined. You can
touch the delete key to erase the u nderlined tex t. if you start ty p-
ing or entering more text by s peaking, the u nderline disa ppears.
To improve processing of your voi ce input, Google may re cord a
few seconds of ambient bac kground noise in te mporary mem ory
at any time. This recordin g remains on the devic e only fleetingl y
and is not sent to Google.
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