Windows 10: Why is it that speech to text is so inconsistent?

The behaviour of the Win+H Speech to text app is extremely inconsistent. Most of the time I have to initiate speech to text twice as more often than not the first time it doesn't work and it hangs on Initializing..... or Something went wrong please try again. Almost invariably it works the second time if not the first.Another issues is half the time it will allow you to speak continuously but the other 3 quarters of the time when talking beyond a certain length the program replaces what you have said with ellipses, after which if you are lucky, gets filled back in with what you said and what w

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text to speech

Do you heard of software which can read text in any application and convert text to mp3, wav, ogg or vox files? I known one - Alive Text to Speech , but it is not a free software, i can use it for 20 days.

Do you recommend a free software?


Thank you!

 

Speech For Phone Accessibility

Hi Chanty,

To set up Speech, please follow the steps:

• Swipe left on the start screen.
• Tap Settings.
• Tap Speech.
• Tap Read aloud incoming text messages.
• Select from the following:
  • Always on
  • Bluetooth and headsets
  • Bluetooth only
  • wired headset only

For Text to speech settings, follow the steps below:

• Swipe left on the start screen.
• Tap Settings.
• Tap speech.
• Set desired options.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Autoscroll function and speech to text?


Dear Rarara!
You should find this MS Support article "Use Speech Recognition" both interesting and helpful. I agree with the previous poster that 3rd-party products (such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, in addition to his suggestion) are better for those in need of more serious and capable speech to text solutions.
HTH,
--Ed--