About Dictation by voice
This application helps you to write a text by dictation on your phone or tablet. You can save the text or send it to other application like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, SMS application and so on.
Available languages for dictation differ depending on the phone or tablet you use and depending on the android version. To view available languages on your phone or tablet, you need to access (on android 4.1.2): Settings - Language and input - Voice search - Languages.
Available languages now on android are:
Afrikaans, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Arabic (7 dialects), Czech, Dutch, English (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, US), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latin Mandarin Chinese (Traditional Taiwan, Simplified China, Traditional Hong Kong), Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian; European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, US, Uruguay, Venezuela), Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Yue Chinese (Traditional Hong Kong), Zulu.
Anytime you can edit (correct or complete) dictated text. To edit text, touch the screen where you need to modify the text.
To use this application you need to connect to the internet.
When this application runs, screen is always on to can continuously dictate and to view the text you dictated but increases battery consumption. But you can dim the screen with a setting in settings menu.
You can change the language you dictates, from the menu button. If you have an antivirus application, after first run, is recommended to wait a minute or two for the application to be scanned.
When dictation starts in continuous mode the process runs continuously until you stop speaking and say only "exit" word. If the phone (or tablet) don't detects any medium intensity sound, continuous dictation also stops. Or you can exit from continuous dictation mode pressing "back" phone (or tablet) button. From settings menu you can change between continuous dictation mode and single mode.
You can get your saved files, to copy on a PC or send on the internet, at sdcardDictationFiles .
Button "Share" give you possibility to send the text you dictated to other phone (or tablet) applications like Gmail, SMS, etc.