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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: We're big fans of speech recognition apps here at Ars, and when MacSpeech announced its plan to license the Nuance recognition engine that powers Dragon NaturallySpeaking, we knew we'd ...

MacSpeech lit up MacWorld 2008 when it showed Dictate, its new voice recognition app that was built upon the powerful Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognition engine. Mac users, used to having access only ...

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 ...

Users have long been able to dictate text on their iPhones to create an email, text message, note, document or other piece of content. But, iOS 16 improves on the dictation feature. Users can now more ...

Microsoft's experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, has released a new tool that aims to make you more efficient over typing on a keyboard. Dubbed Dictate, the new tool is available as an add-in for ...

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 ...

We’ve covered Dragon Dictate—a program that allows you to dictate into your favorite application, to save time and effort typing—over several iterations now. But the recently released Dragon Dictate 3 ...

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 ...

I live in Italy, but because of my work I communicate with friends and colleagues in English. All my devices are set to English, including Siri on our HomePods. As a multilingual iOS user, the ...