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Add Voice Typing To Your IME
Luca Zanolin, Android Developers Blog, 2011
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- What it is
- An official Android Developers Blog post, dated 12 December 2011, by a Google Android engineer who works on voice typing. It says voice typing is a new feature in Android 4.0, and explains how keyboard developers can add a microphone button that starts it.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Google post with a published date, written by the engineer on the feature. It names Android 4.0 as the version that introduced voice typing, but the post and the Android 4.0 highlights page read for this record do not give the Android 4.0 release date, so the post date is the only dated figure here.
Facts taken from this source
- Google's Android Developers Blog, in a post dated 12 December 2011, says voice typing is a new feature available in Android 4.0.
“A new feature available in Android 4.0 is voice typing: the difference for users is that the recognition results appear in the text box while they are still speaking.” (Opening paragraph)