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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com yesterday we showed you how to search for stuff on your Android and on the internet using your voice instead of your keyboard well today it's text input using just your voice let's go take a look alright so this is my g2 by t-mobile it is running a CyanogenMod nightly so this is actually running Gingerbread but you can do this on just about every version of Android that I've seen including the old old old ones and it has to do with this little teeny microphone icon down on the keyboard now this is the swipe keyboard and your swipe keyboard may or may not have a microphone this is the latest beta and it does but if you if you don't have that in your swipe go back to a stock keyboard something that came stock with Android and it should have that microphone right there it's generally overlooked and I really don't understand why because it's really powerful and it's getting more and more easy to use it's getting more stuff that you can do with it and it's starting to learn your individual voice so that's really kind of neat now first of all I want to tell you that using voice recognition in this kind of setup where the phone is flat on that table isn't that great holding it up to your ear like you're making a phone call works best holding it out in front of you in a quiet room also works really well but if we have some mistakes here to us some transcription mistakes it's most likely due to sitting it on this keyboard which means we don't have this rear microphone so if I can get that on camera for you we don't have that rear microphone they're assisting with the front microphone but we're going to go ahead and give this a try and see if we can recognize a shopping list all right so I've fired up Evernote which is my favorite notetaking application not only does it let you store notes locally on the device it also syncs them up to the cloud so you can take notes on your laptop on your desktop on your smartphone and they all sync together into one unified notebook on the web but you can still use it disconnected which very nice so what we're going to do we're going to fire up a new note we're going to come down here into the text input box and this tip is going to work in any text input box out there any standard text input box let's put it that way and the tip is to use your microphone icon down here not to be confused with this microphone icon up here you see in Evernote you can take a voice note that is actually recorded recorded to audio which can come in really handy well today what I want to do is show you how to use this microphone which is the voice to text so let's go ahead and create a shopping list pick up milk eggs bread and cereal as soon as it detects silence it's going to recognize it and you can see here it says pick up milk eggs bread and cereal just like I said now the more I use this the more accurate it's going to get because it starts to learn my voice in particular now you could think that that's really neat and really helpful or you could put on your aluminum hat and think that this is kind of scary because you're sending Google all of your voice patterns whichever way you want to think about it that's up to you just know that if you have that option turned on it is going to be creating a voice profile for you but really neat now like I said we can do this in any textbox that we want to including the title which we can come up in here shopping list and just as easy as that we've got our shopping list in our Evernote it could just as easily have been an email and I can really record a lot of stuff so let me come back down in here and I'm just going to set this to record while I'm summing up just so you can see that you can record an awful lot of text in here and send that off to Google and have Google recognize it for you now this does require that you have an internet connection because it's not your phone that's doing the recognition it's the Google servers we'll let that recognize and the longer it is generally the less accurate it is but you can see it did pretty good the second season recording of a lot of text in here and and off to Google so you see it doesn't get it exactly right the shorter more succinct sentences you can record the better but even still if I had this to look at I could probably figure out what I meant relatively easily it's kind of like texts or handwriting recognition on the old windows see II Pocket PC phones before it became windows mobile but still kind of cool there's your Android quick tip for the day if you've done something like this or have a novel ingenuitive way to use this sun voice input the voice recognition stuff built into Android please let us know in the comments down below thumbs up this video so that we know that you guys like seeing this kind of stuff and want to see more of it in the future we still have those voice intents or voice actions coming up which is going to be really really powerful so make sure you subscribe to our video channel so you don't miss out on that if you haven't done so already or pocket now I'm Joe Levi