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 ...

If you're a computer user who likes to juggle multiple tasks at once, having several productivity-inducing desktop features at your disposal can become crucial. Those who have a machine running on ...

Q: My hands start to ache after just a short amount of typing but I have to produce dozens of pages weekly for my graduate school assignments. Is there an alternative to typing that actually works?

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 ...

Dictate, a new project from Microsoft’s experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using your voice in Office programs including Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

Whether you’re a lightning-fast typist or just want to experiment with an alternative input tool, I encourage you to give ...

If Word Dictate keeps turning off on a Windows 11/10 PC, here are some suggestions to help you fix the issue. A few Windows users have reported that they are facing an issue where the dictate feature ...

The dictation service within Microsoft Word is lousy. At long last, that looks like it’s about to change. In 2017, we complained that dictation within Windows was awful, specifically because it worked ...