Microsoft Office’s coolest feature is getting a major upgrade
Office users can now dictate in even more languages
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MoreMicrosoft Officeusers will now be able to use the software’sspeech to textfeature as the company has announced that it has expanded the number of supported languages inMicrosoftDictate.
According to anew videofrom the software giant,Microsoft Dictatenow supports Chinese (Taiwanese), Hindi, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and Thai in addition to Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish.
While web and mobile Office users can access this feature for free, doing so on Windows and Mac requires aMicrosoft 365subscription.
Getting started with Microsoft Dictate
In order to test out Microsoft Dictate for yourself, you’ll first need to sign in to yourMicrosoft accountusing Edge, Firefox or Chrome.
From here go toHome, selectDictateand first-time users will be prompted to enable microphone permissions on their smartphone or computer. A microphone icon will then appear and you’ll need to wait for it to turn on to be sure it has started listening. It’s worth noting thatWindows 10users can use the keyboard shortcutAlt + ‘to toggle their mic on and off.
Office users can insert punctuation at any time by saying them explicitly such as “full stop” for a period and they can also go down a line by saying “new line”. You can find even more commands for Microsoft Dictate by checking out thissupport document.
If you haven’t tried outdictationin a while, you’re in for a surprise as speech to text technology has advanced a great deal in recent years and is now much more accurate.
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