Have you ever type Nepali using your voice? Today we will learn Google Docs voice typing features and we will implement it for Nepali type. Google Docs is a word processing web application. It is a very lightweight online Word Processing application having some cool features like voice typing. It is like MS Word online version, although MS also has a web version of its Office application. Today in this article, we will learn to type Nepali using Google Docs’s voice typing feature.
Before we dive into Google Doc’s voice typing features, lets’ talk about what is voice typing. We can know it in a very simple way, it is the technique to recognize your voice and convert those into letter and word of spoken language. Now, thoughts like how voice typing work in a real word may come into your mind. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning(Modern Day Computing Technique) are the major technology behind the voice typing tool.
Now let’s learn about Google Docs Voice typing features for Nepali type. We will learn this in a stepwise manner so that it will be easy for you to follow and learn this voice typing feature.
STEP TO TYPE NEPALI USING GOOGLE DOCS VOICE TYPING FEATURE:
STEP 1: LAUNCH GOOGLE DOC
Launch Google Docs in your Chrome browser. Note that, this voice typing feature is only available in the Chrome browser. If you try it with another browser, you will not able to find it. If you have not signed in to your Google account, you will be prompted to login in your google account before you able to access to Google Docs
STEP 2: OPEN EDIT WINDOW
Now you can click on either blank or any previously saved document in your Google Drive. If you start with a blank document, you will get a blank sheet. You can also edit other documents previously saved in Google drive. But for this voice typing tutorial, here we start with a new blank document. Once you click on blank, you will get the blank window where you can add content and edit it. It will appear like below-
Step 2: Open Edit Window
Note: You you also choose different pre-formatted layout(Resume, Letter, Brochure, Report, etc) as per your need.
Google Docs editing Window will look like this-
STEP 3: CLICK ON TOOLS FROM MENU BAR
Google docs have a number of menus available for text formatting and editing. It appears at the top of Google Docs application. Here we are demonstrating voice typing for Nepali. So for this, we have to click on ‘Tools’ from the menu bar, it is just next to the ‘Format’ menu. It is clearly shown below’s screenshot –
STEP 4: NOW CLICK ON ‘VOICE TYPING’
Once you clicked on the ‘Tools’ menu, you will get various functions and utility tools under this. ‘Voice typing’ is one out of them. Note that, this voice typing tool is only available in the Chrome browser, you access the Google Docs through other browsers, it may not appear.
STEP 5: CHOOSE NEPALI LANGUAGE FROM VOICE TYPING UTILITY
Now it’s time to choose the spoken language. Using that chosen language we will do voice typing. As we are doing a demonstration for Nepali typing, we will choose the Nepali as a preferred language. However, you can choose another language from the list as per your wish. It provides 62 different languages for voice typing.
STEP 6: FINALLY USING VOICE TYPING FEATURE BY CLICKING THE MICROPHONE ICON
Now we are all set to demonstrate the Nepali type through the voice typing feature of Google docs. While the microphone is on, you keep talking, and those spoken words continuously convert into the words and sentences.
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