Google renews the text dictation function on its keyboard

Few applications are more important in the smartphone, and we pay less attention, than those that serve us to write. Google keyboard is one of the company’s applications that are most used in Spain, since Most brands have it active by default. There are some important ones that do not, such as Samsung, but can be activated in a simple way if we want.

This application has been improving over time, becoming almost the perfect app in this market segment, after a few years in which alternatives such as Swype or Swiftkey were first level competitors. The latter is still available, but it does not have the importance it had, although being part of Microsoft integrates AI systems.

GBOARD’s last update is arriving at the Pixel And, little by little, to other Android mobiles such as Samsung’s. Of course, the deployment is being gradual, as is happening with the activation of see 2 in Gemini Advanced. Thus, we will have to wait a few days to see the new function in all mobile phones of all manufacturers.

This new function is the renewal of voice dictationone of the most useful characteristics but less known by the vast majority of users. Normally you tend to write by pressing the OA keys to send endless voice messages in applications such as WhatsApp, but it is much more convenient to dictate what we want to say, avoiding having to write but also avoiding forcing the other person to listen to the entire audio. Yes, it is true that for a few weeks the audios can be transcribed, but not always the text is good enough.

The new interface hides the keyboard when we are dictatingshowing only some editing tools, in case we want to put a word in bold, for example. On the side we will have a bar of options that will give us access to functions such as the translator, the clipboard or the emojis.

But the most curious thing is that Now we have voice commands To, for example, send the message or turn off the microphone. It seems that Google wants all this experience to take place without having to write, not even to execute the final action of sending a message. And it seems that this is only the first step for greater control of voice keyboard, something logical given the bet they are doing in Gemini.