Google Docs and Slides now have better voice support

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Whether you’re preparing a document or a big presentation, Google’s suite of online tools can be incredibly helpful. And now, Docs and Slides are easier to use with your voice.

The latest Google Workspace update includes two big improvements to voice-related features. These are features that already existed, mind you, but are being greatly improved to reduce transcription issues and audio loss. This update also includes greater availability of voice features in browsers.

Google specifically mentioned two features where these improvements will make a difference. For one thing, it’s getting easier to write a document or presentation with your voice, and you can also add captions to your slides in real time. Additionally, these captions will now also include automatically generated punctuation, something that was not present before.

Transcription is hard to get right, but Google has been remarkably good at it, and its speech-to-text model is one of the best around. It is about time that some of Google’s most used services already have them. You probably haven’t used any of the speech features in Google Docs/Slides, but now you might want to, even if it’s just for a try.

Source: Google

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