How to Voice Type on Google Docs

Google Docs offers a powerful solution with its Voice Typing feature, which allows you to convert your speech into text effortlessly. This tool not only speeds up document creation but also makes editing and formatting easier using simple voice commands.

Steps to Voice Type on Google Docs

Here are some steps that can help you transform your speech to text in Google Docs with the exciting feature of Google Voice Typing.

Speech to Text in Google Docs

Here, we will use the Voice Type feature of the Google Docs Service. This will convert your speech to text so you do not have to type anything. Follow the steps below to use Voice Type in Google Docs in simple steps:

Step 1: Go to Google Docs

In the very first step, we need to visit the Google Docs official website, from which we are provisioned to create and edit the documents.

Visit the Google Docs website, and use the URL below to visit the official Google Docs website.

Step 2: Opening the Document

Now, after opening the Google Docs website, we need to create a new document or we can choose our existing document for editing. We can upload the document using Google Drive or other sources. So as we are doing Voice Type, we will choose the Blank Document.

Step 3: Go to Tools Tab

Now, our task is to enable voice typing in Google Docs, so to enable that, go to the "Tools" menu which is on the top of the main screen. A drop down menu will appear as you click on Tools Tab. From that drop-down menu, we need to select the option of "Voice Typing...".

Step 4: A pop-up Displayed

After selecting the "Voice typing" option, a permission popup will get opened by the web browser, which will be the microphone icon on the left side of our document. It will ask for our permission to start voice typing. We have to grant access to our microphone so that it will be used in Google Docs.

Step 5: Speech to Text Conversion

We will now begin speaking into the microphone, which will allow Google Docs to translate our speech to text, and simultaneously add to the Google Document. The speech we provided as input will be converted into text and added to the document.

Step 6: Stop Voice Typing

Once our voice typing is completed, we once again need to click on the microphone icon and stop the voice typing. The color will change to grey once it is stopped.

Steps to Give Voice Commands using Google Docs

Step 1: Adding Punctuation

We can add punctuation by saying different commands like "Comma" or "Period" when it is necessary.

Step 2: Adding Paragraphs

In the Google Docs, we can also add new paragraph by using Voice command, we just need to say "New Paragraph" in the microphone.

Step 3: Changing Lines of Text

We can also specify the new line by using the "New Line" command in the microphone.

Step 4: To Select

Voice Typing also allows us to select the specific part of the content. We just need to say " Select [text that should be selected]".

Steps to do Formatting in Google Docs using Voice Commands

Step 1: Selecting Text

Select the text using the "Select [text that should be selected]" voice command.

Step 2: Make Text Bold

For making the text Bold we can use the command as "bold". This will make the selected text bold.

Step 3: To Underline Text

We can also underline the selected text. We just need to say as "Underline".

Step 4: To make Text in Italics

We can also make the selected text as italic. We just need to say as "Italics".

Step 5: Add Bullets

We can create the bulleted list by saying the command as "Create bulleted list".

Step 6: Give Headings

Apply H1 to the selected text by saying as "Apply Heading 1".