# Ho do you spell words into Google Voice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-do-you-spell-words-into-google-voice/726222>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-do-you-spell-words-into-google-voice/726222 "2015-07-26T09:58:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-do-you-spell-words-into-google-voice/726222/1 "2015-07-26T09:58:01Z")

</div>

Google Voice is generally pretty good at recognising what I’m saying, but if it doesn’t recognise a word, I would have thought that spelling it out should work - but it doesn’t for two reasons.

One is because it puts a space between the letters, and the other is that after I have spelled out three or four letters it guesses (always wrongly) what I am spelling out.

I have (of course) Googled this. The problem seems to go back a long way, and no-one has found a solution.

Is there a way to get the right word in to it?