Windows 10: Turn On or Off Online Speech Recognition in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Online Speech Recognition in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Online Speech Recognition in Windows 10


When talk to Cortana and other apps that use Windows cloud-based speech recognition. Microsoft will use your voice data to help improve their speech services.

When Speech Recognition app and other speech services that do not rely on Windows cloud-based services.

See also:

• Speech, inking, typing, and privacy | Microsoft privacy
• Microsoft Privacy Statement | Microsoft privacy

Starting with Windows 10 build 17115, Windows 10 has gotten a new privacy screen settings layout.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off online speech recognition for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” during Windows Setup
• Option Two: Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” in Settings
• Option Three: Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” during Windows Setup
1. When you get to Choose privacy settings for your device during Windows Setup while doing a clean install of Windows 10, you can turn on (default) or off the Online speech recognition privacy setting for what you want. (see screenshots below)











OPTION TWO [/i] Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” in Settings

*note Starting with Settings > Privacy > Inking & typing personalization.
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Privacy icon.

2. Click/tap on Speech on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Online speech recognition for what you want on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. You can now close Settings if you like.









OPTION THREE [/i] Turn On or Off “Online Speech Recognition” using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Settings\OnlineSpeechPrivacy

HasAccepted DWORD

0 = On
1 = Off


1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Online Speech Recognition
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_online_speech_recognition.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Online Speech Recognition
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_online_speech_recognition.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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How to turn off Speech recognition in Windows 10?

Hi Peter,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

Follow the steps to turn off speech recognition in Windows 10

• Click Start then type: Change text to speech options in search bar.
• Hit enter.
• Select the Speech Recognition tab
• Under 'User Settings' uncheck 'Run speech recognition at startup'
• Click Apply and OK

Hope this helps, let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Windows Speech Recognition

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would require more information to help you better.

Are facing any issue with speech recognition?

I would suggest you to follow the steps to see Advance speech options.

• Press Windows+X key on the keyboard
• Click on control panel
• Select speech recognition
• On the left hand pane you will see Advance speech option
  

I would also suggest you to refer to the below link:

How to use Speech Recognition

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/using-speech-recognition

(Step applies to Windows 10 as well)

Hope this information helps and let us know if you have any further queries related to Windows we will be glad to help you.

 

Win 10 Speech Recognition

I was going to try the settings one more time as you suggested. However I ran into deadlock even at the first step:



“…Select the
Speech Recognition > Set up Speech Recognition page…”



No such choice as “Set up Speech Recognition”. How can I send you the screen shot?

 

No speech recognition at all


Hi, this may be of interest:
Installing additional language packs for Windows 10 speech recognition random ranting

This has downloads, + a complete list of languages availablefor Win 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=27224
(but note the date)

fwiw I just tried it- my locale, speech, display language etc are set to UK English. (Which took some doing this time, or something was slightly messed up).

If I type speech in Cortana's search box, say, I get Windows Speech Recognition as top search.

I use Classic Shell, with the Control Panel expanded, so in a second or less I can see 'Speech Recognition' listed there.

Similarly, if I type 'Speech' in Settings I can easily see Speech Recognition.
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With the speech recognition bar displayed, task manager shows:
SpeechRuntime.exe in C:\Windows\System32\Speech_OneCore\Common ..........

sapisvr.exe in C:\Windows\Speech\Common

running.

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Some (older) search results:

I came across this for Win 7
Speech Recognition - Language Configuration is Not Supported Error Fix - Windows 7 Help Forums
- maybe there's an updated one here (see Tutorials).

There are a couple of helpful links at the end of this (but Win 7 again)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...c-cb0ae84c939d

 

Speech recognition errors

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.


I understand your query regarding speech recognition on the software you are using for Speech Recognizer. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• 
  How many language packs are installed and enabled on your computer and what are they?
  
• 
  Does this happen with all the language packs in the computer?
  
• 
  What are the recent changes that you have made to the computer prior to this issue?
  
• 
  Did you try any troubleshooting steps to resolve this issue?
  

The issue might be due to settings on your computer. Let’s refer to the following suggestion and check the issue status.

Refer to these steps and check the issue status.

• 
  Press Windows and X keys together.
  
• 
  Click on Control Panel.
  
• 
  Open Control Panel then Speech Recognition Options.
  
• 
  In the upper right of the Speech Recognition Option window click
  Advanced Speech Options.
  
• 
  Remove the checkmark next to, ‘Allow computer to review your documents’.
  
• 
  Click Apply and click OK
  

Refer below article to Use Speech Recognition:

Voice recognition in Windows 10

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/use-voice-recognition-in-windows-10#v1h=tab02

Keep us posted on Windows related queries and we will be happy to assist you further.