Entering text by speaking
You can use voice input to enter text by speaking. Voice input is an
experimental feature that uses Google’s speech-recognition service,
so you must have a data connection on a mobile or Wi-Fi network
to use it.

To enter text by speaking

You can enter text by speaking in most places where text is
allowed to be introduced.
1. Touch a text field.
2. Touch the Microphone Key on the keyboard (if you set
the Microphone Keyto appear on the symbols keyboard,
touchthe Symbols Key first).
3. When prompted to “Speak now,speak what you want to
enter.
Say “comma,“period,” “question mark,exclamation
mark,” or “exclamation point” to enter punctuation.
When you pause, what you spokeis transcribed bythe speech-
recognition service and entered in the text field, underlined. You can
touch the Delete Key to erase the underlined text. If you start
typing or entering more text by speaking, the underline disappears.
You can edit the text that you enter by typing or speaking.
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Text that you enter by speaking is underlined. You can
delete it, or you can continue entering text to keep it.
Touch once to capitalize the next letter you type.
Touch and hold for all caps.