Note that starting a new transcription clears the one you have already created. ![]() This lets you listen to what you recorded, correct anything it got wrong, add either specific portions or everything to your document. After about a minute Word finished converting the recorded audio it had captured and displayed the transcription in a pane on the right hand side of the document. Once I had finished, I simply paused recording and hit the Save and Transcribe now button. The above was all dictated using the transcription feature. There are still gaps and weaknesses, so you shouldn’t worry that someone will pass a machine off as a person in either direction, yet… it’s already better than some people I know! Conclusion Machines are able to listen to what you say and make a decent job of turning it into text or take text and turn that into really rather fairly human sounding voice, with intonation, pacing and pauses. I’ve mentioned in a previous blog how impressed I am also with the Text to Voice capabilities that are now appearing. Tim Danton has less to say about my written grammar and phrasing less too. I count myself amongst those fortunate enough to be benefiting from these improvements as I suffer with Repetitive Strain Injury from even mild mounts of keyboard and mouse use. They really have taken this to heart Accessibility tools and advanced AI helpers have improved remarkably. Of course, this is all part of Microsoft’s grand vision infusing AI into everything that people do and, more importantly, empowering others ensuring that they enable everybody regardless of circumstance, ability level, or disabilities and differences to interact effectively and fully with technology. Personally, have been very impressed with how big a change Microsoft has made in its approach to these things since their new vision was announced by Satya Nadella a few years ago. “To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” Microsoft’s corporate mission right I think it is really rather impressive. ![]() ![]() Just Speak normally.ĭon’t forget to review it, since even the very best voice recognition is only about 80 or 90% accurate, and there will be oddities in what you actually said until you build up experience. That’s better than my typing accuracy and some transcription services have you seen the past using real people. This article was dictated at full speaking speed from an ordinary desktop headset. No clever audio hardware needed. No need to change the way you speak. No need to speak slowly or differently. Transcription worked very acceptably with my middle English accent and respected British English spelling, which I suspect is a function of my Word document templates or having been set up with the correct language (unlike so many other people I could mention). Nine dictation languages are supported today, with 12 in preview. However, the press release and Microsoft’s blog that alerted me to the new feature (both dated yesterday as I write this) may already be out of date as it seemed to pick up British English (proper English, as some of us like to refer to it) correctly, based on the existing Dictation settings. Right now, it officially supports just US English.
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