Enabling Windows 10 Speech Dictation

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Enabling Dictation

  1. Simply press the following keyboard combinations of Windows Logo Key and H Key together to start dictation:

  

  1. The first time you will be asked to enable online speech recognition. Click the link at the top of the monitor to go to settings and turn it on:

  1. Then switch the toggle to On:
    • This setting is found in Windows Settings > Privacy > Speech. Clicking the link in step 2 above takes you right here. 

 

 

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Starting and Stopping Dictation

  1. If you have not done so, follow the steps above at Starting Dictation the First Time
  2. Subsequent  presses will then Start and Stop the dictation software.

 

 

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How to Use Speech Dictation

More info about using the dictation software can be found at Use dictation to talk instead of type on your PC (microsoft.com)

 

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