I bet it doesn't support Portuguese in all its variants.
It does support both "Brasil" and "Portugal". Have you tried it out? Does it work well in Portuguese?
Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
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#12Not available for me, menu item grayed out. Austria/Europe here. Language is set to English/USA.
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#13Seriously folks, this is awesome. Does anyone have a recommendation of a USB microphone/headset that will work with Ubuntu so that I can start using this a bit more comfortably? I did not know voice typing was possible before, this has made my day. All I need now is to invest in a decent microphone!
Get a Blue Yeti.
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#14Not available for me, menu item grayed out. Austria/Europe here. Language is set to English/USA.
I have that on Firefox, it works with Chrome.
Re: Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
#15Seriously folks, this is awesome. Does anyone have a recommendation of a USB microphone/headset that will work with Ubuntu so that I can start using this a bit more comfortably? I did not know voice typing was possible before, this has made my day. All I need now is to invest in a decent microphone!
Get a Blue Yeti.
Blue Yeti is good (and not too expensive), but isn't it a bit overkill for voice typing?
If you generally feel like having a better microphone would help in other cases as well (Skype, vlog, what-have-you), then I'd agree with the above post.
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#16I've been dabbling with speech recognition for 20 years now, and this is nothing new, but what's been a long time coming is the recognition accuracy. In the old days, you'd get about 85% accuracy, now we're looking at what, 95%? That 10% is a game changer.. 85% accuracy was simply too frustrating to be practical.
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#17Pretty neat.
It won't accept curse words though like the f-bomb and the s-word.
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#18Super impressive.
My wife just spoke full-speed Vietnamese into a Google Doc, 100% correct, even the tone marks.
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#19I'm sure Google is mining (anonymized) data from this -- I wonder if they can use it to improve the transcriptions for Youtube automatic captioning by seeing what kind of revisions people make to the voice transcription.
I've often wondered this but it feels like they're very siloed. Google Now seems to improve every year; it almost never gets anything wrong that I speak nowadays but just a few years ago it could get rough if I'm trying to get it to type a bunch of stuff.
But YouTube auto captions? They seem just as horrible today as they were years ago.
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#20I would like to use this kind of thing even if I had to type the commands... anything to avoid mousing, and holding down arrow keys, and all that tedious stuff. Typing sentences is totally natural for me, I can do it all day. For years I've been dreaming of a renaissance of ed-like editors.
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