User's Manual

ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE USE THE KEYBOARD
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Keyboard dictionaries
To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to Settings > Personal >
Language & input.
Personal dictionary
You can add your own words to your personal dictionary so that
your device remembers them. To add a word or phrase, including
an optional shortcut, go to
Settings > Personal > Language &
input > Google Keyboard > Text Correction > Personal dictio-
nary and the language of the dictionary you want to modify, then
choose Add and type in the word. When you use the optional
shortcut when typing, your word or phrase appears as an option
in the suggested words above the keyboard.
Add-on dictionaries
1. Go to
Settings > Personal > Language & input > Google
Keyboard > Text Correction > Add-on dictionaries.
2. You’ll see dictionaries for other languages that you can down-
load to your device.
3. Touch the dictionary you want, then Install.
Type by speaking
You can speak to enter text in most places where you can enter
text with the onscreen keyboard.
1. Touch a text eld, or a location in the text you’ve already en-
tered in a text eld.
2. Touch the
Microphone key on the onscreen keyboard.
3. When you see the microphone image, speak what you want to
type.
In some languages, you can also enter punctuation by speaking
it, like “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “exclamation mark,”