Voice Typing: 4 Tips

Love the tutorial. Adding, if I may, I changed my arrow keys to period, question mark, exclamation point, and quotation marks. I kept my fingers on them and typed in manually as I spoke. Much faster.

This is fascinating. As you note, this is probably a "different strokes for different folks" thing. I type pretty wickedly fast and work in an student learning area so speaking would be disruptive, but I also really want to get more students using speech recognition, so ... I'm going to play around some myself and speculate about what kind of thinkers will benefit from what kind of voice typing.

I'm also a writer and I primarily use dragon naturally speaking. I have been writing since I was a kid, but after so many years of pounding keys I've had problems with my hands so dragon has saved some strain on my hands. I have also used Google's voice dictation and recently tried Microsoft word's after a long needed upgrade and to be honest I wasn't really impressed with either, though Google's has improved from when I initially tested it out. What I like about dragon beyond it being extremely accurate is it gives you the ability to train words and phrases to your speech so for example, if you're writing something that has a first and last name that might be difficult, you can train the software to recognize it. I am a sports writer and I have found it very useful for what I do. If Google had a similar tool for it's software, I would consider using it more often, but I will probably stick with dragon for dictating and Microsoft word for writing material because I was trained on it years ago, but it's nice to see that there are more options out there now. Best of luck to you Laura.

Wonderful honest tips. Thank you for sharing your experience. Might just have a go!

Thank you Laura, great video! when you made this video were you following an outline or was this just off the cuff?

I like the points you identified in your video. I found that I was listening to you more than watching you because this video showed a sound lag on the video. I have done dictation in the past; I found that what worked for me was to have a bullet outline with a list of items I wanted to include in the document. Looking into a wall was always a bummer for me as well.

I would like to Dictate into Google Slides or Open Office Impress -- can this be done? (On the slide itself, not into "notes".) I'm using a Dell laptop with Windows 10.

Thank you for the helpful tips! I recently noticed while using google docs for voice dictation that if I use my keyboard for punctuation then the first letter of the next sentence is not capitalized... But if I use my voice for punctuation "Period" then the next sentence is capitalized? Not sure if this is a specific issue to me or not. But I did find an Add-on for google docs that allows me to capitalize the first letter of each sentence with the click of a button. it's called "Case Change". I now use my voice for words and my keyboard for punctuation, and at the end of a few paragraphs ill highlight the text and select the addon listed above. This makes it easier for my train of thought to continue without the thought of having to say "period', "coma"...!

Thanks so much for this video! I tried Google Docs Voice Typing a few years ago and liked it. I have recently tried it again and it seems to me that "new line" works differently now. I'm having a lot of trouble with "new line" while doing a numbered list. Seems like i need to say "period" first and then "new line" to get a new item in the list. I really do not want to add the period since it's extra text that i usually do not need. Any ways around this? Is there a way to do voice macros? I have searched the web, but have not found additional help. I have also tried using apple dictation in to the google docs app on iphone. I'm not sure which works better yet. I'm also experimenting with Dragon Dictate. I have not yet found something that I feel comfortable working with regularly. Is there a users group for Voice Typing somewhere? Thanks again!

Back ground music is very anoying but good job with tips

Thankyou very inspiring really helped going to try this now

Thanks a million. Your video is still helpfull in 2022 and Google Voice Typing is still the best free choice out there (imo)🙂

I recently get interested in voice typing. thank to you to give some tips on how the voice typing should be done. I agree that we ourselves have to master the technique, not fully to depend on the technology. the voice typing tool in Google Docs is one of the tool I use. But I prefer to use android app such as Speechnotes, then send it directly to the drive when I need to edit it. I think it's more stable on recognition and we can adjust when to put punctuation, enters and even made a correction

Thank you Laura. I am trying different tools as well since I have sore hands and cannot type anymore. My main issue is my accent (I am not a native speaker). So far I've tried Dragon and Apple and they didn't work for me. Hope your tips help me with Google. The other issue is that I write in LaTeX rather than Office or Docs. That makes it even more complicated :-(.

Thank you for sharing experience

Im new im disabled have lupus and fibromyalgia and my hand are done. Im definitely will ur tutoring. 🙏💜

Thanks a lot for sharing the tips with us right now I am writing by speaking and it's quite easy.

Such a useful video! Thanks a lot!

I have hearing issues, so cannot pick your voice out over the music. Luckily, you included great subtitles, so I was able to follow your excellent tips. Thank you for this Laura. If you can remove the background music that would be very helpful.

Thank you. I found this very helpful, but the background noise is very intrusive and distracting.