Using a Mobile device:

Dictating your notes into G5 is incredibly easy on your mobile device. And it is not just notes that you can dictate. Anywhere that you would normally have to type in information, you can dictate into.

1. Open G5 on your mobile device and log in.
2. Browse to a Household, Contact, or anywhere that you need to add a note or task.
3. For this example, we will add a note to a contact. Simply tap into the note field and then tap on the microphone icon above your keyboard.
   
4. All you have to do after that is start talking and it will add the note into the note field.
5. Once you are done, you can review the note and ensure that everything looks correct, then tap the save button on the right, just like you would on your desktop.
   

Using a Windows Computer:

You can also dictate into G5 using your computer. You will have to first set up your speech recognition.

1. Click on the Windows logo key   and then choose Settings.
2. Click on Ease of Access
3. Click on Speech
4. Click the slider button to turn on speech recognition, then follow the wizard to finish setting everything up.
5. Once you have this set up, you can press the windows logo key   + H on your keyboard to start dictation.
6. If dictation is not working, make sure you have your cursor within a text field, then press the windows logo key   + H to start dictation.

For more information about dictation, please visit  Microsoft’s site here .

Using an Apple Computer:

Apple will also allow you to use voice dictation as long as you are upgraded to macOS Catalina or newer. The following instructions have been taken from  Apple’s website .

How to turn on Voice Control

1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility.
2. Click Voice Control in the sidebar.
3. Select Enable Voice Control. When you turn on Voice Control for the first time, your Mac completes a one-time download from Apple.
   

When Voice Control is enabled, you see an onscreen microphone representing the mic selected in Voice Control preferences.

To pause Voice Control and stop it from listening, say “Go to sleep” or click Sleep. To resume Voice Control, say or click “Wake up.”

Dictation

When the cursor is in a document, email message, text message, or other text field, you can dictate continuously. Dictation converts your spoken words into text.

1. To enter a punctuation mark, symbol, or emoji, just speak its name, such as “question mark” or “percent sign” or “happy emoji.” These may vary by language or dialect.
2. To move around and select text, you can use commands like “Move up two sentences” or “Move forward one paragraph” or “Select previous word” or “Select next paragraph.”
3. To format text, try “Bold that” or “Capitalize that,” for example. Say “numeral” to format your next phrase as a number.
4. To delete text, you can choose from many delete commands. For example, say “delete that” and Voice Control knows to delete what you just typed. Or say “Delete all” to delete everything and start over.

Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. For example, to dictate and then send a birthday greeting in Messages, you could say “Happy Birthday. Click Send.” Or to replace a phrase, say “Replace I’m almost there with I just arrived.”

You can also  create your own vocabulary for use with dictation.