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Questions tagged [voice-recognition]

Mechanism by which an application or system recognises commands or data input given by voice

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What do I say to make a new line when using voice recognition?

I've found I can make punctuation happen by saying "comma", or "period", but I can't find the word for new line. I tried "paragraph", and "line break", but it just prints those words.
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What is the list of commands to dictate punctuation, capitalization and line breaks?

I'm on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.3. I would love to become a power user of the dictation feature to dictate text messages and emails. More often than not, however, I have to hand-edit the dictated text not because of text…
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When using "voice typing", how can I capitalize a proper noun?

When I press the speech-to-text button on my keyboard, I can dictate some text. Say I have a pub called the Red Lion that I want to mention. How can I get it to type "Red Lion" instead of "red lion"? Letting it enter "red lion" and going back and…
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can you "voice to text" without using wifi or data

Is there a way or app that allows "voice to text" when I am not near wifi or have data?
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Why is voice-to-text input not working when disconnected from the Internet?

As you know, on Nexus One you can use voice input to enter text by speaking. Unfortunately, if you are disconnected from the Internet (even temporarily), this feature is unavailable. Why? On my Windows laptop I can do this without being connected to…
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How can I uninstall the local Speech Recognition from Google?

My Google Speech Recognition isn't working. When I use it (in Google Now, Evernote, etc.) it crashes the app. I'm guessing this is because I installed the local SR. (I did a Factory Reset on the phone (Motorola Razr M) and the problem persists AND…
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Jelly Bean's Offline Voice Typing APK

Is this possible to get Jelly Bean's Offline Voice Typing apk for other Android versions like Gingerbread or ICS???
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Speech to text deletes my sentence

I am trying to use speak-to-type in QuickOffice, and when I try it at the beginning of item number 2 in a numbered list, it types the sentence and then deletes it again! If I go up to the existing item number 1 and then try to add my sentence to it…
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How can I add a default alternative spelling to voice dictation?

My SO has a different spelling (but same pronounciation) of a common name. Every time I use voice dictation (which is all the time) and I say their name, I have to correct it with the keyboard. Is there a way to switch it to use the "correct"…
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How to force voice recognition into writing out numbers or just printing numerals?

One edge case I've found when transcribing notes is that, if I say 1, 2, 4 or 8, it's never clear if they will come up as numbers or as one, two, four, eight or one of their homophones. Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking I could always rely on saying…
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Voice to text: How punctuation works in Dutch?

I've seen a lot of post about the punctuation, but that was all about the English version of voice-to-text. The Dutch version works pretty good, but it seems to be imposible to do things like 'new line', 'point' or 'comma'. How to use the…
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Getting text to speech to write a . (period)

I have just started to use Googles speech to text on my Sony Xperia Z3+ and it is very precise, both in English and Danish. But I cannot get it to write any punctuation in either language. A period would be just fine, but if I dictate in English and…
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Accidentally Deleted Voice-to-Text app for Samsung Galaxy SIII

I was running out of memory on my phone, and so went through all my apps and deleted those I didn't use to create more room....apparently, by doing so, I deleted the app that lets me voice-to-text on text messages or even search by voice in google…
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Google Voice typing punctuation - how to have it?

I'm trying to use Google's voice typing, but it is not able to punctuate my sentences. No matter I say "point", "dot" or "comma", it always writes it into my text. Earlier I though this is only because I wanted to use the voice typing in other…
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Punctuation in Google Voice typing on Android 11 in other than english language

I'm trying to use Google's voice typing but compared to iPhone it's really rude. I'm already on Android 11. But it is still not able to detect my punctuation words, so everytime I want a . or , I need to stop the voice typing, switch back the…
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