#Speech to text word 2016 windows 10 windows 10

Every word you say and text produced is recorded on Microsoft’s servers. What privacy? Not a word about this from Microsoft, which is typical. Then use Office’s Translate to convert the text you’ve approved. If you don’t know the To: language, it’s safer to use Dictate into something you can read and edit. Then the Cortana translate between languages has to be correct. Firstly, there’s the speech to text which must accurately render your words. There’s two opportunities for Dictate translation to go wrong. We have no idea if the Monty Python phrase is correctly translated into Finnish. It’s a fantastic idea, if it works properly.

You’ll get better results with a headset microphone and in a quiet location. An inbuilt microphone usually isn’t enough for dictation. Go to Control Panel | Speech Recognition | Set up microphone. Our ebook Dictation and Read Aloud in Office explains all about modern dictation and speak options in Windows, Mac, Apple and Android devices.Ī good, close and clear microphone is essential to getting speech recognition to work well. In Windows 10/11 there are in-built dictation tools to use in any app. Setup Dictateĭownload was available from but that page has been disabled.

It worked with Word, PowerPoint and Outlook for email writing in Office 2013 and Office 2016.

#Speech to text word 2016 windows 10 windows 10

Microsoft is pushing the Cortana voice features in Windows 10 and, frankly, Dictate is the first practical application we’ve seen for the technology.ĭictate is a Microsoft Garage tool, which means it’s ‘trial balloon’ for something that may, or may not, make it into fully released product. It uses the same cloud system which converts your spoken questions to Cortana. What made Dictate different is the use of Cortana voice recognition technology.

Most media have just reported Microsoft’s hype, we actually tested Dictate and here’s what we’ve found. Microsoft released an interesting new tool for Office 2013/2016 which promised to be a major improvement on current ‘speech to text’ options.