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 officials touted back in January a new voice dictation capability for Microsoft Office. On March 12, Microsoft began testing this feature with its Office Insider testers. The @OfficeInsider ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Cognitive Services AI platform powers the Dictate plugin, currently in beta and offering translation and dictation for Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook. I’m a managing editor at PCMag.com ...

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 ...

Microsoft offered a dictation add-on for Word, Outlook and PowerPoint a year ago as one of their Garage projects. Now Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote have a dictation upgrade called Office ...

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 ...

The last few versions of Microsoft Windows have had built-in support for speech recognition, allowing you to control some PC functions with your voice and to dictate text for input in various ...

As someone who writes an insane amount each month, I have long relied on dictation software to help me get my assignments done on time. I first started experimenting with dictation back in the ...

Dictation capability will be made available in select Office web apps in the coming weeks as part of Microsoft's commitment to Made by Dyslexia, which is meant to improve access to tech for students.

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 ...