![]() ![]() The idea for Dictate emerged from a hackathon project, notes Microsoft, and afterwards was used internally at Microsoft by over 1,500 employees across 40 countries. used in Microsoft Cognitive Services, including Microsoft Translator, the company says in an announcement about the new add-in. This is also same speech recognition and A.I. Available as an add-in for Microsoft’s software, Dictate is powered by the same speech recognition technology that Cortana uses in order to convert your speech to text. That’s unlikely after necessary checking and correcting any mistakes made by Dictate.Dictate, a new project from Microsoft’s experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using your voice in Office programs including Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. It takes the curious line that speaking is faster than typing. Here’s Microsoft’s promo video for Dictate. A microphone test should be added because that’s crucial for any ‘speech to text’ application to work properly. In its current form, Dictate isn’t going to convert any Dragon NaturallySpeaking users. Dictate is likely to appear in more Office releases, especially for tablets and phones. It’s nowhere near as accurate as their demo video suggests. A lot depends on your voice and microphone setup. As we know, that information can be used by Microsoft itself or government agencies.ĭon’t use Dictate for anything confidential or personal.ĭictate is an interesting idea and works reasonably well. 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. 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. ![]()
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