#Windows speech to text windows#

The next window enables you to access the list of these commands built into windows 10. These commands help you navigate around the computer with your voice and edit your text as you type it. There are several commands that the computer is trained to understand.You can do so manually (by using your keyboard and mouse to open the app when you want to use the speech to text function) or you can use your voice to start and stop listening. Next you can choose how you’d like to turn on the speech recognition function.Choose whether you’d like to enable or disable this feature and click next. If you choose to enable document review, Windows will view personal documents and emails to better learn the phrases and types of speech that you use. The next window will ask if you’d like the computer to improve its speech recognition accuracy by reviewing your personal documents and emails.Make sure your microphone is on or your external microphone is plugged into the computer and click next. The next popup will ask you to set up your microphone.In the next window select the type of microphone you’ll be using for the voice recognition function and click next.Windows will now walk you through the steps to set up speech recognition on your computer.

In the list of items that appears, select the Windows speech recognition desktop app.In your search bar (or Cortana search field) type speech recognition.Enabling Speech to Text in Windowsīefore you use the speech to text function in Windows you must first enable it by following the steps below: Note: If you have an Apple computer check out the Apple website for their version of speech to text software. Note: this post may contain affiliate links.

Windows speech to text