Typing with your voice – dictating text – has become an extremely common way to communicate. Better yet, you don't even need a stenographer. (Now I'm dating myself) I recently watched a friend quietly ...

For a lot of writers, speaking their thoughts is much easier than typing them. This is why most writing apps and devices include a way for you to turn text into speech — this includes Microsoft ...

Microsoft has announced that it has added the new Dictate feature to both the new Outlook app for Windows as well as the Outlook web app, allowing people to use their voice to write email messages. A ...

Microsoft Garage has been churning out some of the most innovative apps and technologies. The latest one is called the “Dictate”, and true to its name all it does is take dictation and convert the ...

Why type documents the old-fashioned way in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote when you can dictate the text instead? Whether you have a disability, medical condition, or are looking to ...

Dictate, a new project from Microsoft’s experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using your voice in Office programs including Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Microsoft has released a new app called Dictate. It's an add-in for Word, Outlook and Powerpoint and uses Cortana's speech-recognition technology to let you speak what you want to type. Office has ...

Microsoft's new Cortana-powered plug-in adds speech recognition to the desktop mail client, and can even translate your words to different languages. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

Microsoft Windows 10 is chock full of ways to input information. There is the keyboard, of course, which comes in both physical and software versions. Then there’s Windows 10 Ink, which provides solid ...

Why type documents the old-fashioned way in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote when you can dictate the text instead? Whether you have a disability, medical condition, or are looking to ...