Ever wanted to be able to easily speak to your computer & accurately have your speech be turned into text while using Outlook, Word, or PowerPoint?
Dictate is an free Microsoft Office add-in for Outlook, Word and PowerPoint which converts speech to text using the state of the art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator. Currently available for Windows OS.
Dictate, a Microsoft Garage Project
Dictate is unique in that has the following features:
- Supports more than 20 languages for dictation
- Real time translation to 60 languages
- Commands like "new line", “stop dictation” and "enter" to give more control while dictating
- Two modes of punctuations: Auto and manual for English
- Visual feedback to indicate that speech is being processed
Here’s a quick example of what I cranked out in just 60 seconds. Note: I didn’t correct anything written.
It supports the following commands:
- New Line: Takes cursor to new line
- Delete: Removes the last line you dictated
- Stop Dictation: Terminates the dictation session
- Full stop or period: Types period character (.)
- Question mark: Types (?)
- Open Quote: Types (“)
- Close Quote: Types (”)
- Colon: Types (:)
- Comma: Types (,)
Get started by downloading the free “Dictate” for Microsoft Office 2013/2016 (32-bit/64-bit) today!
- BETA: “Dictate” – a free Microsoft Garage project for Speech-to-Text in Office (2013+)
http://www.dictate.ms/ - FAQ:
http://www.dictate.ms/FAQ.aspx - Contact:
http://www.dictate.ms/ContactUs
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