Both Android and iOS do not automatically insert punctuation marks.

Start speaking into the microphone when you're ready. Tap the microphone located at the bottom of your keyboard. To use voice dictation on Android devices, open any Android app and bring up a keyboard. Tap the Done button that appears on the screen when you've completed your dictation. To use voice dictation on iOS devices, tap the microphone on the keyboard (located near the space bar), speak into the microphone, and your iOS device converts your speech into text.

Say “Show Speech Options,” then say “Enable dictation everywhere'įor more details, see Microsoft's article.

Select All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > Windows Speech Recognition.

To enable dictation for use in all Windows programs:

Speak the text you'd like to transcribe loudly and clearly into the computer or device microphone.

Open Evernote for Windows Desktop, select an existing note or create a new one, select the area in your note where you'd like to position your text.

Say “Start Listening” or click the microphone button to start the listening mode.

Select All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > Windows Speech Recognition.

Your Mac computer will listen up to 30 second at a time.įor more details, see Apple's article.

Your words will appear in the text field.

Speak the text you'd like to transcribe clearly into the computer or device microphone.

Press the fn key twice or select Edit > Start Dictation.

Click ON to enable Dictation or OFF to disable it.

How to set up voice dictation Macĭictation is available for OS X Mountain Lion and later Note: Because speech-to-text is not an Evernote feature, please refer to your computer or device's documentation for more information and resources. Most modern devices support speech-to-text and once you've enabled it, you can start dictating notes into Evernote following the steps below.

If you'd prefer to dictate text notes into Evernote, you can use your device's speech-to-text features. Evernote, however, does not convert audio recordings into text nor does it allow you to search for a word mentioned inside the recording. The easiest way to create notes with your voice is to record an audio note.

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