User's Guide

48 Android basics
User’s Guide T-Mobile G2
Using your voice to enter text
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.
To enter text by speaking
You can enter text by speaking, in most places that you can enter
text with the onscreen keyboard.
1 Touch a text field.
2 Touch the Microphone key .
The first time you use voice input, the Voice Actions window
opens to tell you how to use voice actions to search, control, and
communicate.
3 Tap “Speak now,” and then speak what you want to enter.
When you pause, what you spoke is transcribed by the speech-
recognition service and entered in the text field. You can press the
Delete key to erase the text.
You can edit the text that you enter by typing or speaking. See
“Editing text” on page 49.
Text that you enter by speaking.
You can delete it, or you can
continue entering text.
Touch to enter text by speaking.