Punctuation in voice to text?

[neodoc427]

Punctuation in voice to text

Hello, everyone:

I'm new on this forum and thus far I've found it really useful in deciphering my new Nexus 6P. Up until 1 month ago, I had a Motorola Atrix 4G, which still works, but is just now getting slow and freezing at times, even after 5 years of use. I guess rebooting it religiously every day kept it going so long. I'm doing the same with the Nexus.

My question to all of you is about voice to text punctuation, but in Spanish. I can get punctuation marks inserted in my message when speaking it in English by saying things like "period" or "comma," but when I do it in Spanish (yes I have added Spanish to the phone's languages and keyboard) it writes the word, i.e. "punto," which means period, gets written out as the word "punto." Does anyone know how to get it to put in punctuation? Having to come out of voice mode after each sentence defeats the purpose, and I hate sending one giant run-on sentence. Thanks for reading my post. I look forward to your replies.

Joe

 

[puch96]

Re: Punctuation in voice to text

Try saying "period" at the end of the sentence, even if speaking in Spanish. It works for me.

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[SpookDroid]

Re: Punctuation in voice to text

I have the same issue you do, and while Google does a fantastic job at figuring out which language I'm dictating in automagically, it doesn't seem to support punctuation in Spanish. I haven't tried it, but you might and let us know if it works: What happens if you start dictating in Spanish, but give out punctuation commands in English? I guess it might mistake those for actual Spanish words and paint you as a hungry person when trying to insert a comma, but who knows... maybe it'll work!

EDIT: OK, it seems another user confirms that speaking punctuation in English, even though dictating in Spanish, seems to work. So try that! BIG oversight on Google's part, though.

I wonder if punctuation works if you only set Spanish as the primary and only language available.

 

[neodoc427]

Re: Punctuation in voice to text

Thank you for the replies so far. I tried saying "period" at the end of a sentence and it's hit or miss if it interprets it as a period. If I wait a second before saying the word "period," it may insert it. At other times, it changes the entire text to something else in English, despite having set the language to Spanish. As for a comma, it interprets that as "cama," which means "bed." It interpreted "question mark" as "Hotmail." I suppose for now, all my texts in Spanish will be run-on sentences. Oh well...

 

[SpookDroid]

Re: Punctuation in voice to text

How does 'Pregunta' or 'Signo de Interrogación' becomes Hotmail? hahaha Go home, Google... you're drunk!