Windows 10: Using Logitech headset with microphone to dictate speech to text.

First of all, I have never used Cortana, nor has it ever engaged with me. I recently tried reviving my Logitech headset with microphone to dictate speech to text. I do not find the model # of the headset. The first time I plugged the USB into my computer tower, I was able to instantly speak and the computer wrote what I said. I did not have to activate nor adjust any settings. The next day, Cortana started and I wasn't able to dictate using the headset. Eventually, I was able to "disable/ disengage/ turn off" Cortana. I am unable to speak to dictate now. I do not have the software anymore for the headset. The software has never been installed on this computer, yet the headset worked well for a day. Any help were be appreciated. A stroke has left me with limited dexterity.

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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.

Let us know if you got the help you needed by clicking "Yes or No.

Harish

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Speech to Text

Hello,
Thank you for guiding me in the right direction.

I attempted all of the 6 steps recommended above. Only issue was that for step 4, I could not access/did not have access to the "hardware and devices troubleshooter" for whatever reason. Even after a reset of the Surface, I am still unable to set-up the
speech recognition with the onboard microphone. The sound/audio works just fine for everything else though.

I have purchased an external microphone for use on other apps and this microphone will suffice for what I intended to accomplish. It has been set up for speech recognition and is working properly. I do have one related question that I have not researched
in depth: How do I use the speech recognition to perform speech-to-text, into a program such as Word or Scrivener? The best response I found was that I can use it to complete a sentence or two, but not continual speech-to-text similar to Dragon Dictate or
text messaging on some phones, etc. Can it be set up to perform this continual typing while speaking?

Thanks again,

Doug

 

Windows Speech Recognition works, but not with Office

How can I get Windows Speech Recognition to work well with Office apps? I have set up Speech Recognition, made sure that the microphone I am using is the only audio input, and completed the accuracy training. When I dictate into
Windows Notepad, the dictation works well - conversion to text is fast and accurate, and I can dictate long passages without a problem. So this tells me that the microphone, training, and hardware setup are all good.

However, I am using Office 2019 and whenever I try to dictate in Word or Outlook, Speech Recognition keeps failing to recognize text. After recognizing a few words, Speech Recognition stops transcribing and shows the "What was that?"
message. Any further dictation results in the same "What was that?" message. If I turn off dictation and then go back into listening mode, Speech Recognition may recognize a few words before suddenly stopping and showing "What was that?" again, or it may immediately
show the "What was that" message without recognizing
any dictation. Closing Speech Recognition and re-opening it does not help. Neither does closing Windows and rebooting the system.

I always start Speech Recognition before opening the other apps (Notepad, Word or Outlook).

The system here has more than enough power. The CPU is an Intel Core i7-960 running at @ 3.20GHz. I have 12 Gb of RAM installed.
I checked resource use by looking at Windows task manager under the Performance tab. Even with Word, Outlook and Speech Recognition all open, while dictating into Notepad or into Word only 30% of the memory is in use, and CPU utilization is 10%. So processing
and memory resources don’t seem to be the problem. The microphone is a Logitech USB headset.

Since dictation works well in Notepad, we can assume that the microphone, speech recognition training, and hardware configuration all are OK. So why does dictation NOT work well in Word and Outlook? Right now I am dictating
into Notepad and pasting the resulting text into Word or Outlook, but I would prefer to fix the problem and be able to dictate directly into the Office apps. Any suggestions on how can I fix it?

Thanks!