Voice Dictation in Microsoft Word is about to get a lot better
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Dictate for Microsoft Office on Windows will be retired as an add-on on 15th October, to then be officially integrated into Office 365 and Windows 10.
The plugin from Microsoft Garage is powered by Microsoft Cognitive Services, which is the AI-powered speech recognition service. The use of artificial intelligence means constantly improving algorithms, and therefore a progressively more adaptable, reliable tool.
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.
The key features of the app are:
- 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
Check out a brief demonstration by Microsoft:
Source: onmsft.com
