Dictation, on the other hand, works in any app or service on your Mac, meaning you could write an essay in Microsoft Word or leave a comment on YouTube in Safari - with only your voice. Siri does have a voice-to-text feature, but it only works with native applications like Mail and Messages. The tool, known as Dictation, lets you use your voice to type pretty much anywhere on your computer - which Siri can't do. Conveniently, Mac has another voice feature that fills in some of the holes that Siri leaves behind - including voice typing. With just my voice I can quickly search through hundreds of documents for a single file or check for free disk space if I'm running out of storage, but the intelligent personal assistant does have its limitations. I hardly ever use Siri on my iPhone, but boy, oh boy, do I take advantage on my Mac.

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Office Watch most popular articles of 2020 Word Online gets Dictation – type with your voiceĭictate voice commands – the full, searchable listĭictate into documents with Word 365 for Mac They might have lower accuracy and punctuation with improvements happening over time.ĭictation first appeared in the Word 365 for Mac v16.45 Preview languages are ‘works in progress’.

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There’s a list of fully supported and ‘preview’ languages. You can have fun testing the profanity filter to see what’s considered ‘naughty’ in various languages. Perhaps this makes more sense for ‘Speech to text’ on live or recorded transcription. “ This is to ensure that any errors in speech recognition don’t incorrectly attribute potentially sensitive phrases to a speaker.” What is Microsoft’s thinking behind the profanity filter? They now explain: Religious names, which could be considered profane or blasphemous in some contexts, are allowed. As you can see above, a few minor words are deemed OK. We tried stubbing a toe while dictating to discover that all the usual suspects get bleeped out – the F, C (x 2) and S words for starters. Microsoft decides what’s a profanity and what’s OK. At least the number of letters is correct! Profanity filter on with Dictation in Word 365.

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