I\u2019m happy to tell you that speech-to-text programs have improved over the years and text to speech software has become amazingly accurate \u2013 especially once it gets used to your voice and speech patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n A while back, we showed you how to use the speech-to-text features in Windows 10.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Today, we\u2019re going to show you another free speech-to-text application and it\u2019s also something most of you already have. If you have a Gmail address, you have a Google account \u2013 and if you have a Google account you can use Google\u2019s excellent speech-to-text technology to create a Google document or Google presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n Google calls it \u201cvoice typing\u201d and I guess that sums it up.\u00a0 If you have a Google account and have the Google Chrome browser installed, you can use \u201cvoice typing\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s how:<\/span><\/p>\n 1.) Make sure your Microphone is on and working.<\/span> When you\u2019re done, click the microphone again.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s it. Now save your masterpiece and you\u2019re done.<\/span><\/p>\n Here are some other things you need to know about Google\u2019s voice typing straight from Google\u2019s voice typing page<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n You Can Correct mistakes while voice typing<\/span><\/p>\n Punctuation<\/span><\/p>\n You can use these phrases to add punctuation to your text:<\/span><\/p>\n Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n Those are the basics of voice typing using your Google account. To use voice typing in your Google account, you must use the Google Chrome browser.<\/span><\/p>\n For more information and more details about voice typing from Google, see this page<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n How to Use Google\u2019s Voice Typing Just a few years ago, if you wanted good speech-to-text software you had to be prepared to pay\u2026 and some of the best text-to-speech applications were on the expensive side. And to be brutally honest, some of the earlier attempts to create accurate speech-to-text conversion were not particularly good \u2013\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2574,2247],"tags":[1897,2962],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21100,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions\/21100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/voice-typing.png\")
Just a few years ago, if you wanted good speech-to-text software you had to be prepared to pay\u2026 and some of the best text-to-speech applications were on the expensive side. And to be brutally honest, some of the earlier attempts to create accurate speech-to-text conversion were not particularly good \u2013 or very accurate. Some were downright awful.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2.) Use Google Chrome to sign in to your Google account<\/span>
\n3.) Open a document in Google Drive with a Chrome browser.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/voice-typing.png\")
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\n4.) Click Tools and then Voice typing.\u00a0A microphone box will appear.<\/span>
\n5.) When you\u2019re ready to speak, click the microphone.<\/span>
\n6.) Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/voice-typing2.png\")
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