Entering and editing text 50 AUG-3.0-100 Android User’s Guide Entering text by speaking You can use voice input to enter text by speaking. Voice input is an experimental feature that uses Google’s speech-recognition service, so you must have a data connection on a mobile or Wi-Fi network to use it. Enter text by speaking You can enter text by speaking, in most places that you can enter text with the onscreen keyboard. 1 Touch a text field, or a location in text you’ve already entered in a text field. 2 Touch the Microphone key on the onscreen keyboard. 3 When prompted to “Speak now,” speak what you want to enter. Say “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “exclamation mark,” or “exclamation point” to enter punctuation. When you pause, what you spoke is transcribed by the speech-recognition service and entered in the text field, underlined. You can touch the Delete Text that you enter by speaking is underlined. You can continue entering text to keep it, or delete it.