Windows 10: Problems with voice dictation.

I have a peoblem with voice dictation.


First, let me say that the microphone works fine. The Voice recognition part of the equation seems to work fine. The problem is that the text doesn't make it's way to the target.


Here's an example.

I position the cursor in a text field. Then I hit Win+H. The dictation bar comes up at the top of the screen. Then I start talking. My words appear in the text field, in grey with a little grey underline. When I stop talking, the text disappears. instead of being entered into the text field. It's like there's some final decision about the process being made when istop talking, and it decides a against inserting the text.

This is a hit and miss kind of situation. Sometimes everything seems to work just fine. and other times it fails over and over. For example, most of this message was done with dictation and it worked just great.

Then I go back to Facebook and try to enter in a comment with voice dictation and it fails over and over.

so what's going on here?How do I get this to work reliably?

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voice dictation to text software

wonderful. I did the voice recognition easily enough thanks to the easy instructions, but now i want to dictate a letter and have no idea how to do it!!!.

So what would be the next step? and thanks, Mike

 

Voice dictation into non-Microsoft application

We are volunteers willing to help you try to resolve this issue.

A good article on Voice Dictation

The Beginner's Guide to Dictation Software: The Best Apps for Voice to Text Productivity

https://zapier.com/blog/best-text-dictation-sof...

List of Speed Recognition Software - includes Open Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_re...

Please let us know the results and if you need further assistance.

 

Dictation not working.

Hello Lina,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Please provide some additional information, so that we can assist you better.

1. Are you using dictation in Windows or Office application?
   
2. Since when are you facing this issue?
   
3. Did you make any changes to the computer before this issue started?
   

I suggest you to follow the below mentioned steps:

Step 1: To dictate text:

1. Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Windows Speech Recognition.

2. Say "start listening" or click the Microphone button to start the listening mode.

3. Open the program you want to use or select the text box you want to dictate text into.

4. Say the text that you want dictate.

Step 2: You may refer Microsoft article related to Dictating text:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4042244/windows-10-use-dictation

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14198/windows-7-dictate-text-using-speech-recognition

Hope it helps.

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Harish

Microsoft Community – Moderator