Improved voice typing in Google Docs is coming to extra browsers

Google Docs’ voice-typing function, which helps you to “type” and edit textual content utilizing your voice and a microphone slightly than your fingers and a keyboard, is getting a couple of key upgrades. 

First is that the function is increasing to “most major browsers.” Currently, Google’s help web page notes that it’s “only available in Chrome browsers.” Second is that it’s being upgraded to “reduce transcription errors and minimize lost audio during transcription.”

As 9to5Google notes, voice typing has been obtainable in Google Docs for over half a decade, permitting customers to get phrases on the (digital) web page even when their fingers are full or in any other case not able to have the ability to historically kind. It may also work as a helpful transcription software in a pinch, although as our information explains you is likely to be higher off with a devoted piece of transcription software program most often.

Frustratingly, though Google’s announcement says the function is coming to “most major browsers,” it doesn’t specify precisely which browsers these are. At the very least, we hope that it’ll now be formally supported in different Chromium-based browsers like Microsoft Edge (the place customers report that it hasn’t worked in the past), however “major browsers” would presumably additionally embrace Safari and Firefox. We’ve contacted Google for clarification. 

As nicely because the enhancements coming to Google Docs, the search large says that voice-typed speaker notes in Google Slides “will now contain automatically generated punctuation.” The enhanced voice typing options ought to roll out to all customers by the center of subsequent month.