Lastly, to turn on Dictation via the Settings app, here's how you can do it. On your iPhone, launch the Settings app. Tap General > Keyboard. Next to Enable Dictation, toggle on the button.

With this in mind, I set up the shortcut so that it would only ask me to pick a recipient from a list of favorite contacts then automatically set the dictation language without asking me to pick from ...

The key is a built-in feature known as dictation. But before you can take advantage of dictation, you'll have to enable it. After that, it works similarly as any voice-to-text feature, any you may ...

Apple's iPhone 4S and Google's Android phones let you use a microphone icon on your virtual keyboard to dictate surprisingly accurate texts, Tweets, emails and other content, Walt Mossberg reports ...