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Voice Typing

Voice Typing

by: Richard Goodwin

1 Feb 2013

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If you can see a microphone icon, you can voice type. It's not perfect, but it is great for quickly replying to texts and searching for things in Google Now, Search and inside applications like IMDb.

Give it a try at home and perhaps in a couple of years you'll be using it to write your memoirs.

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