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Google "voice typing"

Google’s Speech-to-Text feature supports multiple languages

The Speech-to-Text feature for Google Drive is called “voice typing.” This free tool brings voice-to-text technology to Google Docs and supports different languages including Arabic (Standard Arabic and different accents), German, English, Spanish (various accents), French, Hindi, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong) and many other languages.
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How to write Arabic in Adobe Photoshop

If you ever tried to write Arabic in Adobe Photoshop you will find that copy/pasting Arabic text in Photoshop does not really work in the same way as it does for other languages or even for other scripts such as Cyrillic. Arabic letters get split (not connected as they normally should be) and the direction of the text is left-to-right instead of right-to-left.

To write Arabic correctly in Adobe Photoshop one needs to activate the Middle Eastern features in the software, and create a basic setup for several additional features for Arabic script. Continue reading