Voice input
How it works
- Please note this feature is in BETA (meaning it might not work ;)
- Enable the Voice Input in my extension Options > Voice Input and it will add a microphone button in your Gmail webpage at the bottom of a new compose message (or reply area)
- Click the microphone button
- A prompt at the top should appear asking to use the microphone, click Allow
- Then start talking (try slow and loud at first). Google's speech recognition service will translate your spoken words into text and compose your message without typing! (It's much faster)
- If the words are not correct you can hover over them and choose from among other suggestions!
- Problems? Check your microphone settings
Speech recognition stopped
- Note that this happens frequently. It's an issue with Google and hopefully they will fix it. It happens when the speech recognition service is interrupted due to the network or is just unable to listen
- This also happens if you click outside of the voice input area
- Just click Continue (or hit Enter) and resume speaking
Voice commands
(English only)
| Saying this... | Does this... |
|---|---|
| Comma | Inserts ( , ) |
| Period | Inserts ( . ) |
| Colon | Inserts ( : ) |
| Question mark | Inserts ( ? ) |
| Exclamation mark | Inserts ( ! ) |
| New line | Inserts a new line |
| New paragraph | Inserts a new paragraph |
| Erase | Erases the last phrase spoken |
| Erase word | Erases the last word |
| Erase all | Erases everything in the input area |
| Stop recording | Stops speech recognition |
| Send Email | Sends the email |
| Message (while in subject field) | Puts the focus into the message body |