Windows 10: Voice Access takes me to Start Menu when I'm dictating a sentence that begins with "Start."

I edit manuscripts in Microsoft Word. When I'm doing any rewriting or leaving a comment, I'm not able to use sentences that begin with the word START. When I do, I am taken to the Windows Start Menu. Not super helpful. How can I turn this off, so that I can dictate sentences that begin with START? /* Moved from Microsoft 365 and Office / Word / For home / Windows */

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Microsoft dictation eventually overwrites previous sentence - how can I stop this?

Pressing the windows button and H activates dictation - it works GREAT until it doesn't. After a while of using it, the problem arises where a previously dictated sentence is overwritten by the newest sentence that is dictated. I have tried every suggested fix, and the only one that works is to exit out of everything, restart the computer, and start over. WHY does it stop working?????

 

Sentence Speed In Dictation

Hello all,

I just came back from a year abroad in France - cut short due to corona - and understand that if I don't continue speaking, I will lose the language skills I have. And so, I'm trying to set up the dictation setting where I talk, the microphone picks up
what I'm saying and converts it to text. However, the homework I'm doing in French involves complicated vocabulary and sometimes I have to stop and search for it ; sadly, when I pause to think about the word, the dictation thinks I have finished my sentence
and starts a new one.

For example, my sentence would look somethingLike this, with a new sentence starting because I took a slight pause after saying the word "something". Is there any way to lengthen the time I get to continue with my sentence or do I just have to talk faster?

Thanks,

Sasha

P.S. This is my first time posting a question on the Windows forums, sorry if I did something wrong haha

 

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

Dictate text using Speech Recognition - Microsoft Support

Hope it helps.

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

Harish

Microsoft Community – Moderator