If you aren't using voice dictation in Microsoft Word, you're sleeping on one of its best features. It transforms how you interact with the document with hands-free typing, editing, and formatting.

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.

A new Transcribe feature is available today in Microsoft Word on the Web for paid Microsoft 365 subscribers. Designed to help writers and journalists instantly and easily transcribe in-person ...

Microsoft is adding a dictation tool to the online versions of Word and OneNote. The move follows in the footsteps of dictation being included in the desktop versions of Office 356 apps via Cortana, ...

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 ...

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Microsoft's Garage incubator is fielding a new experimental app for hands-free typing called Dictate. Dictate is an add-in for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. According to Microsoft's site for the app, ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft added the voice dictation capability to Office 365 Education to let students write hands-free in various productivity apps within that suite. Today, the company announced ...

Microsoft has pledged to help individuals with dyslexia access important technologies used for education and more. As part of its mission, Microsoft says its will be expanding its Educational research ...