Speech Recognition

With Speech Recognition you can speak to your computer, tablet or smartphone to control it, give commands and dictate text.

• Useful for anyone because you can typically speak faster than you can type;
• helpful for people with physical difficulties, dyslexia, writing or spelling difficulties, or visual impairment;
• freely built in to all computer, tablet and smartphone operating systems;
• you can also buy software for Windows and Mac computers.

What's available on iPads, iPhones and Android?

Siri for iPhone and iPads

Intelligent personal assistant on the iPad.

Android

Google Voice Typing is Android's version of speech recognition.

What's available on a Chromebook?

Dictation

Built-in Chromebook tool.

Google Voice Typing

Dictate into Google Docs on Chromebook.