Office Dictate: Microsoft is testing the use of voice dictation to create PowerPoint documents, notes, emails, and PowerPoint presentations in Windows. THE trial version of the feature was recently made available to Office Insiders.
The official announcement describes Office Dictate as follows.
The dictation uses your voice to create documents, presentations, emails and take notes in Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Office Dictation uses speech recognition technology to convert speech to text.
Dictation is one of the smart services of Office, and bringing the power of the cloud to Office applications will help you save time and get better results.
Notes:
This feature is only available if you have an Office 365 subscription. If you are an Office 365 subscriber, make sure you have the latest version of Office. The function is valid for English language.
You must be connected to the internet to use this feature.
Office Dictate is not compatible with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
Way activationof the voice dictation feature in Microsoft Office
For the new feature to work, you'll need to enable the Trust Center's privacy options. This assumes you are running the latest version of Microsoft Office. If you're subscribed to Insiders, you'll automatically receive them updates with new functions.
To enable voice dictation in Microsoft Office:
Open Microsoft Word.
Click File - Options - Trust Center - Trust Center Settings - Privacy Options.
On the right, activate the boxes control.
Note: Your phrases will be sent to Microsoft and may be used to improve speech recognition services.
You're done.
How to type with your voice
Open an Office application.
Turn on your microphone and make sure it works.
Select Dictate, and wait for the Dictate icon to turn red. You can then start speaking and the text will appear in your document, email, slide or σελίδα you chose.
Note: In case of an error, you can move the cursor to the error and correct it with your keyboard without turning off the microphone.
The following phrases are to add punctuation to your text:
- Period
- Comma
- Question mark
- New line
- New paragraph
- Semi-colon
- Colon
When done, tap the Office Dictate icon again to stop.
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