Entering Text By Speaking - Google Android 2.3 User Manual

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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.
Turn on voice input
If the onscreen keyboard does not display a Microphone key
turned on or you have it configured to display on the symbols keyboard.
1 Press Home
keyboard > Android keyboard.
Touch Voice input.
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3 Touch the option for where you want the Microphone key (on the main keyboard or
the Symbols keyboard). Or touch Off to turn off voice input.
Enter text by speaking
You can enter text by speaking, in most places that you can enter text with the
onscreen keyboard.
1 Touch a text field, or a location in text you've already entered in a text field.
2 Touch the Microphone key
appear on the symbols keyboard, touch the Symbol key first).
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, then touch Settings > Language &
, press Menu
on the keyboard (if you set the Microphone key to
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