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Thanks for the feedback!Thank you to everyone who has provided us valuable feedback on Dictate. Starting October 15, the Office add-in will sunset and no longer be supported. The app has been successfully integrated into Office 365 and Windows 10, and users can continue to use dictation across these products.You type all day long to get things done. Responding to email, writing documents and creating presentations to communicate your ideas. Sometimes, this gets tiring. Your fingers get sore, your wrists hurt. Or, maybe using a keyboard is difficult for you. Do you ever wish you could just talk to your computer and have it write for you? Research shows you can speak much faster than you can type. What if you could type with your voice? Meet Dictate, a Microsoft Garage project. Dictate is an Office add-in for Windows Outlook, Word and PowerPoint that converts speech to text using the state-of-the-art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator. Download it today and start writing with your voice.Key features include:- Highly accurate speech to text
- Supports 29 spoken languages
- Real-time translation to 60 languages
- Commands like “new line”, “stop dictation” and “enter” to give more control while dictating
- Two modes of punctuations: Auto and manual (with commands like “Question mark”, “Period”, “Exclamation mark”, “Comma”) Visual feedback to indicate speech is being processed
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Dictate, a Microsoft Garage projectDictate is an Office add-in for Outlook, Word and PowerPoint which converts speech to text using the state of the art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator. Currently available for Windows OS. Download Dictate from https://dictate.ms and start typing with your own voice!
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The feature will start with Word and OneNote, but will come to PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook in 2019. Microsoft is also adding real-time translation to the immersive reader in Word, OneNote and Outlook Online, and also for OneNote for Windows 10, Mac and iPad this fall.
Pictured – Top Row: Anirudh Koul, Anand Desai, Eren Song, Prabhav Agrawal, Ayush Sharma; Over Skype – Derik Stenerson
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Everyone wants to speak now — or rather, use speech-to-text with artificial intelligence to save the labor of typing. So is it a surprise that Microsoft now has a potentially innovative attempt at speech-to-text, born from its own private tests and development?
Microsoft Dictate is an experimental new app from Microsoft Garage that brings voice dictation to Windows versions of Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. You only need to download the light 2 MB add-in for the Ribbon to get started.
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Microsoft Dictate started its life from a hackathon project. I guess the guys at Redmond wanted to save some time in emails, long text documents, and quickfire PowerPoint demonstrations. After all, it’s not always fun to depend on the keyboard for saying things like “Deploy infrastructure to improve cognitive load on the virtual machines.”
Install this handy program and it goes to work from its own tab in the Ribbon.
- Reveal the Dictation tab on the Ribbon. Click on the Mic icon to start the voice to text speech recognition.
- The dictation software picks up your speech patterns and translates that into text on the page. You can also see the real-time feedback in the field.
- Quickly shift to the language options if you want to spell out something in a different language. Dictate supports more than 20 languages for dictation and can handle real-time translation of 60 languages.
- Nine specific voice commands help you create new lines, delete, add punctuation and more to format the text.
- Toggle between manual punctuation and automatic punctuation for better control.
- Microsoft Dictate is supported on Windows 8.1 or later, Office 2013 or later, using .NET Framework 4.5.0 or later.
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Microsoft Dictate uses the same infrastructure that runs the successful Cortana. The cutting-edge speech recognition and artificial intelligence built on Microsoft Cognitive Services includes the Bing Speech API and Microsoft Translator.
The fledgling effort will only get better with time, assuming Microsoft keeps on with the project. For now, more advanced speech-to-text software need not tremble at its “intelligence” — it’s still a Garage project for the foreseeable future.
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Want to try something similar outside of Microsoft Office? Check out voice typing in Google DocsHow Voice Typing Is the New Best Feature of Google DocsHow Voice Typing Is the New Best Feature of Google DocsVoice recognition has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Earlier this week, Google finally introduced voice typing into Google Docs. But is it any good? Let's find out!Read More.
Is Dictate among the Microsoft Services you didn’t know about till now? Have you ever used voice typing to write an entire document?
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Speech Dictation On Mac
- We can use PC with google chrome with voice to text extensions. There are quiet a few. I use that to enter text into whatsapp web, telegram web, dictate in gmail etc. only some text entry boxes will not work.Also google office doc voice activate shortcut : Ctrl+shift+S