Microsoft has released an interesting new tool for Office 2013/2016 which promises to be a major improvement on current ‘speech to text’ options. Most media have just reported Microsoft’s hype, we’ve actually tested Dictate and here’s what we’ve found. What makes Dictate different is the use of Cortana voice recognition technology. It uses the same cloud system which converts your spoken questions to Cortana. Microsoft is pushing the Cortana voice features in Windows 10 and, frankly, Dictate is the first practical application we’ve seen for the technology. Dictate 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 seems quite stable for a Garage project, though it has some understandable curiosities.

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At Ignite 2018 today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac that comes with the updated on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. You can use the Text to Speech feature to hear selected text read aloud in a Microsoft Office for Mac file. If you have not already done so, set up the Text to Speech feature. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences.

It works with Word, PowerPoint and Outlook for email writing in Office 2013 and Office 2016. • • • • • • Setup Dictate Download from There are separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Dictate works with Office 2013 and Office 2016 for Windows. Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. A good, close and clear microphone is essential to getting speech recognition to work well. Setup and check your microphone. Lamborgini 2017 wallpaper for mac. Go to Control Panel| Speech Recognition| Set up microphone. An inbuilt microphone usually isn’t enough for dictation.

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You’ll get better results with a headset microphone and in a quiet location. Unlike some speech-to-text systems, Dictate/Cortana doesn’t have a ‘training’ mode. That lets the software get better at recognizing your particular voice. Dictation tab Start Word and you have a new Dictation tab. The default language settings should be correct (copied from Word/Windows) but you can change to suit your needs. Start – click this button then start speaking.

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Click again to stop dictation. From – choose the language and variant you’ll be speaking – eg English US, UK, India, Australian etc. To – the language that will be typed. That does NOT have to be the language you’re speaking, see Translation below.

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Manual Punctuation – in English only, you have the choice of Automatic or Manual punctuation. Automatic – Dictate will add punctuation for you. Manual – certain phrases will be converted into punctuation characters instead of words. • Full Stop or Period • New Line (strictly speaking, creates a new paragraph) • Question Mark • Open Quote • Close Quote • Colon • Comma Speech to Text – Dictate We tried Dictate with a section from one of our favorite stand-up comedy pieces of all time: Woody Allen’s The Moose. Peter read it ‘straight’ to give Dictate a fair test. It didn’t go well, as you’ll see from the highlights we’ve added to show the many errors. As you can see, Dictate had a lot of trouble with Peter’s ‘comma’ and ‘full stop’.