Tag Archives: Typing

Google Docs’ voice-typing feature, which lets you “type” and edit text using your voice and a microphone rather than your hands and a keyboard, is getting a couple of key upgrades.  First is that the feature is expanding to “most major browsers.” Currently, Google’s support page notes that it’s “only available in Chrome browsers.” Second is that it is being upgraded to “reduce transcription errors and minimize lost audio during transcription.” As 9to5Google notes, voice… Source link

Google Docs has offered voice typing on the web since 2015 and the input method is now set to pick up “enhancements” that will also improve automatic captions in Google Slides. When viewing a Google Doc, Tools > Voice Typing opens a floating microphone that accepts input until you click again. You can also edit and format with your voice. The upcoming update will “reduce transcription errors and minimize lost audio,” but Google doesn’t provide any specific examples. Google… Source link

Alongside news of its brand-new Pixel 7 smartphone line and Pixel Watch, Google today also announced a number of ways it’s improving the technology running on its new devices, powered by Google Assistant. With a set of features that will be exclusive to the new Pixel at launch, Google is updating Assistant’s abilities to aid in areas like voice typing, navigating businesses’ phone menus, voice message transcription, and more. Many of these capabilities are updates on existing… Source link

With the looming closure of Yahoo Answers, one Twitter user has compiled 500 questions from the site into a mod for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. In response to the closure of Yahoo Answers, the site’s most memorable questions have been memorialized as a dictionary mod for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Built as a blend of zombie shooter and typing instructor, The Typing of the Dead franchise has… Source link

Yahoo Answers, the go-to online resource for delightfully earnest and nonsensical user-submitted questions, is shutting down forever on May 4. But the bizarro questions themselves will live on in one form — arguably the best form — as phrases for Sega’s zombie type-’em-up, The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. For those unfamiliar with The Typing of the Dead, it’s a spin-off of Sega’s zombie light gun arcade game series, The House of the Dead. Instead of guns, players and in-game… Source link