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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 , voice input is not turned on or you have it configured to display on the symbols keyboard.

1Press Home , press Menu , then touch Settings > Language & keyboard > Android keyboard.

3Touch 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.

1Touch a text field, or a location in text you’ve already entered in a text field.

2Touch the Microphone key on the keyboard (if you set the Microphone key to appear on the symbols keyboard, touch the Symbol key first).