Comments on: Use Your Chromebook’s Voice Dictation for Speech-To-Text, OK Google, and More.

By: Andy Z.

Andy Z. — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:07:03 +0000

Hey solonicity,

Thanks for pointing that out. This article is in need of an update. I’ll get to it ASAP and see if there’s a workaround for any of the voice dictation features- or if they’re just broken.

Thanks again for letting me know.

By: solonicity

solonicity — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:20:48 +0000

Almost none of this is working a year later on a pixelbook. Anything about email it says it can’t open gsuite email yet. Ask it to open anything, files app, any app installed it opens web instructions.

By: Andy Z.

Andy Z. — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 08:36:24 +0000

In reply to Mike.

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the tip! This actually makes it a lot easier to access and a lot more convenient. Keep ’em coming if you have any others!

Thanks again.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 18:35:24 +0000

On chromebooks you can have speech to text by launching the on screen keyboard (on touch screen or non-touch screen). Settings, seach Keyboard. Enable show input options on shelf. Click “US” (US keyboard, use your county keyboard) and you will see the microphone. It works just like an android phone.

By: Andy Z.

Andy Z. — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:25:45 +0000

In reply to Steve.

Hey there,

As of now, I believe you have to cut-and-paste your document into Microsoft Word. It lacks the speech recognition/dictation feature on the Chrome OS version (based on the last time I checked).

However, you can easily just get around this by doing exactly as you said. An easy way would be to use the speech-to-text function in Google Docs and then just copy that over to blank Word document.

If Office 365 actually does have the dictation feature for Chrome OS, let me know and I’ll update the guide.

There are also a few voice dictation apps on the Chrome Web Store you can check out, but I’m not sure if they’re compatible with Microsoft products.

Let me know if you have any other questions =].

Thanks.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:35:29 +0000

Can I dictate directly into Word, which I can get on line in Chromebook via Microsoft 365. Or do I need to cut and paste the words into Words? That would not be too bad but I’d rather be able to do it directly just like I could with Dragon on Windows.