Giants in Tech => Microsoft => Topic started by: javajolt on June 20, 2017, 03:42:31 PM
Title: Microsoft Garage’s project Dictate allows you to type with your own voice
Post by: javajolt on June 20, 2017, 03:42:31 PM
Dictate is a new project from Microsoft Garage that allows you to start typing with your own voice. Dictate is a free Microsoft Office add-in that works with Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. It makes use of the same state of the art speech recognition technology that powers Cortana and Microsoft Translator. Currently, Dictate supports more than 20 languages for dictation and real-time translation to 60 languages. It also supports the following commands for better typing experience.
• New Line: Takes cursor to new line
• Delete: Removes the last line you dictated
• Stop Dictation: Terminates the dictation session
• Full stop or period: Types period character (.)
• Question mark: Types (?)
• Open Quote: Types (“)
• Close Quote: Types (”)
• Colon: Types ( : )
• Comma: Types (,)
You can download the 32-bit add-in here (http://dictate.ms/setUp/Setup-Dictate32-5.0.0.exe) and 64-bit add-in here (http://dictate.ms/setUp/Setup-Dictate64-5.0.0.exe).