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 ...

If you're a computer user who likes to juggle multiple tasks at once, having several productivity-inducing desktop features at your disposal can become crucial. Those who have a machine running on ...

Q: My hands start to ache after just a short amount of typing but I have to produce dozens of pages weekly for my graduate school assignments. Is there an alternative to typing that actually works?

As someone who spends hours writing, I've found Word's dictation tool an absolute game-changer. I can write with fewer ...

Q: I’m terrible at typing. It’s slow and painful. But I can talk up a storm. Is there any way I can talk or dictate content to my computer rather than struggle with the keyboard? A: Yes! There are ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of a transcription capability within its Word for the Web app for Microsoft 365 subscribers. Additionally, users of Word for the Web and Word for mobile apps ...

The first thing we suggest doing here is to check if your microphone is connected to the computer correctly. Unplug the device then plug it back in again. Finally, perform a dictation routine to see ...

If Word Dictate keeps turning off on a Windows 11/10 PC, here are some suggestions to help you fix the issue. A few Windows users have reported that they are facing an issue where the dictate feature ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

The latest version of Dragon Dictate is similar to the last version we reviewed ( version 2.0, in October, 2010), but brings several small changes, along with one important new feature to the program.

The dictation service within Microsoft Word is lousy. At long last, that looks like it’s about to change. In 2017, we complained that dictation within Windows was awful, specifically because it worked ...