Did you know that Windows 10 has an excellent dictation feature that makes it easy take a note, write an email, jot down a recipe, or even write a story or an essay, just using your device\u2019s microphone and your voice?<\/span><\/p>\n To use the dictation feature in Windows 10, press and hold down the Windows Key and tap the H key, then place your cursor in (almost) any text field and start talking. It works with almost any app including MS Word, WordPad, and Gmail.\u00a0 Note that with some apps you may have to click the “microphone” icon in the dictation bar before it will start “listening”. See?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s an example of Windows 10 Dictation being used with MS Word. See?<\/span><\/p>\n Above: You can see Windows Dictation is \u201cListening\u2026\u201d and in MS Word you can see what I\u2019ve dictated so far.\u00a0 You can add punctuation by saying comma, period, etc.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll find that the more you use Windows Dictation, the better it does at understanding your voice.<\/span><\/p>\n When you\u2019re done dictating just say \u201cStop dictating\u201d. That’s it. If you’re tired of typing, you’re not a great typist, or you are just feeling lazy, give Windows Dictation a try. Open an app that allows text input, hold down the Windows Key, and tap the H key.\u00a0 When the dictation bar shows that it’s “listening” click on the microphone icon and start talking.<\/span><\/p>\n You’ll be surprised at how accurate it is.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Windows 10 Dictation Feature Did you know that Windows 10 has an excellent dictation feature that makes it easy take a note, write an email, jot down a recipe, or even write a story or an essay, just using your device\u2019s microphone and your voice? To use the dictation feature in Windows 10, press and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[3009,4113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20372,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions\/20372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Windows](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/dictate.png\")
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