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title: "Log foods by speaking"
slug: "log-foods-by-speaking"
updated: 2024-04-25T20:28:55Z
published: 2024-04-25T20:28:55Z
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# Log foods by speaking

If you are a [Premium member](/docs/en/subscribe-to-carb-manager-premium) and have the [Carb Manager mobile app](/docs/en/get-the-carb-manager-mobile-app), you can log foods with your voice. Say the food or meal that you want to log, including the portion size, and Carb Manager will search for your food in our databases. If Carb Manager can’t find your food, you can add it.

**Note:** To learn more about Carb Manager’s databases and the sources of food data, see [View sources of food data](/docs/en/view-sources-of-food-data).

## Log multiple foods

This section describes how to use the Multi-Add feature to quickly log more than one food without needing to view or change each food’s details, such as serving size and nutrition information.

1. Select ![](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add.svg) **Add Item** > [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add-food-say-btn.svg) **Say Food**.
2. One-time setup: If your mobile device prompts you to give Carb Manager permission to transcribe your speech, and to access your microphone, select the options to allow permission and access.
3. When the Now Listening screen opens, speak clearly into your device and describe the food or meal that you want to log. For example, you could say, “I ate two scrambled eggs and half of an avocado for breakfast.”
4. On iOS devices, when you’re finished speaking, select **Done Speaking**.
5. In the Confirm your voice log screen, read the transcript to confirm it is accurate. If you need to make changes, tap the description and enter your changes, then select **Submit**.  
Carb Manager opens a screen that lists the foods that match your description.**Tip:** If Carb Manager did not find your food, tap **Not seeing your food? Try an extended search** at the bottom of the screen. If Carb Manager still did not find your food, tap **Or create a custom food** at the bottom of the screen, then follow the steps in [Create custom foods](/docs/en/create-custom-foods).
6. In the food selection screen, select **Multi-Add** to turn on the Multi-Add feature.
7. Select the **+ Add button**next to each food in the list that you want to add to the daily log.**Tip:** If the serving size of a food in the list doesn’t match the amount you consumed, add the food as it is now, then once you’re finished adding multiple items, edit the food’s portion size from the daily log, as described in [Edit daily log entries](/docs/edit-daily-log-entries). If you edit the item from the food selection screen while Multi-Add mode is on, Multi-Add mode will turn off. Repeat the previous step to turn on Multi-Add mode again.
8. Optional: If you are [fasting](/docs/en/working-with-fasting) and try to log foods during a fasting window, select **Continue Logging & Keep Fasting** or **Log food & break my fast now**.**Tip:**To change the food's timestamp to a time within your eating window, select **Cancel** to return to the food's detail screen, select **Show Advanced**, and select a different **Date** or **Time**. Then, select **Add** to log the food.
9. Do one of the following steps.
  - If you are done logging foods, select **X** to close the food selection screen.
  - To log more food individually, select **Exit Multi-Add** to turn off the feature, then follow the steps in the [Log one food at a time after viewing or changing its details](/docs/en/log-foods-by-speaking#log-one-food-at-a-time-after-viewing-or-changing-its-details) section.

## Log one food at a time after viewing or changing its details

This section describes how to log one or more foods after viewing or changing each food’s details, such as serving size or nutrition information.

1. Select ![](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add.svg) **Add Item** > [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add-food-say-btn.svg) **Say Food**.
2. One-time setup: If your mobile device prompts you to give Carb Manager permission to transcribe your speech, and to access your microphone, select the options to allow permission and access.
3. When the Now Listening screen opens, speak clearly into your device and describe the food or meal that you want to log. For example, you could say, “I ate two scrambled eggs and an avocado for breakfast.”
4. On iOS devices, when you’re finished speaking, select **Done Speaking**.
5. In the Please Review screen, read the transcript to confirm it is accurate. If you need to make changes, tap the description and enter your changes, then select **Submit**.  
Carb Manager opens a screen that lists the foods that match your description.  
**Tip:** If Carb Manager did not find your food, tap **Not seeing your food? Try an extended search** at the bottom of the screen. If Carb Manager still did not find your food, tap **Or create a custom food** at the bottom of the screen, then follow the steps in [Create custom foods](/docs/en/create-custom-foods).
6. In the food selection screen, select a food to open its detail screen.
7. In the Servings section of the food’s detail screen, enter or select the number of **Servings**.**Tip:** To enter part of a whole serving, either enter a decimal in the **Servings** field, such as **.5**, or select a fraction from the list, such as **1/2**. In the mobile app, if you only want to select whole and partial servings from a list instead of entering numbers, select **Switch to Selector**.
8. Optional: To change any of the food’s nutrient values, select ![](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/more-options-vertical.svg) **Options** > ![](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/edit.svg) **Quick Edit Nutrients**, enter a value for one or more nutrients, then select **Save Changes**. Carb Manager saves the changes to that food for your account.**Note:** For more information about editing nutrients, including how to reset changes you made, see [View and edit nutrition information in foods, recipes, and meals](/docs/en/view-and-edit-nutrition-information-in-foods-recipes-and-meals).
9. Optional: To see more options, select **Show Advanced**, then do any of the following steps.
  - [Premium members](/docs/en/subscribe-to-carb-manager-premium): if you [enabled meal goals](/docs/set-meal-goals), select **% of Day** or **% of Meal** to view the food's macros as a percentage of the goals for your day or meal. Carb Manager updates the chart near the top of the screen.
  - To log the food to a different meal, select a **Meal**. (Carb Manager automatically selects the meal that is closest to the current time of day.)**Tip:** If you’re a [Premium member](/docs/en/subscribe-to-carb-manager-premium), you can change the time when a meal, snack, or supplement occurs. For details, see [Set time ranges for meals, snacks, and supplements](/docs/en/set-time-ranges-for-meals-snacks-and-supplements).
  - To automatically log the food to another day in addition to the current day, select an option from the **Repeat** list. For details, see [Log recurring foods automatically](/docs/en/log-recurring-food-automatically).
  - To log the food to a different day instead of the current day, select a **Date**.
  - To change the time that will be logged with the food, which is only available if you turned on the setting to [track meal times](/docs/en/track-meal-times), enter a **Time**.
10. Select **Add** to add the food to the daily log.
11. Optional: If you are [fasting](/docs/en/working-with-fasting) and try to log food during a fasting window, select **Continue Logging & Keep Fasting** or **Log food & break my fast now**.**Tip:**To change the food's timestamp to a time within your eating window, select **Cancel** to return to the food's detail screen, select **Show Advanced**, and select a different **Date** or **Time**. Then, select **Add** to log the food.
12. Optional: To find and log another food, repeat the previous steps.
13. Select **X** to close the food selection screen.

The daily log displays each food that you logged and a summary of each food’s nutrition.