Free Dictate add-on allows you to, well, dictate to Microsoft Office

Microsoft Garage -- the Redmond behemoth’s R&D arm -- has released Dictate 5.0, a free add-on for those running Microsoft Office 2013, 2016 or 365 on Windows 8.1 or later. Also available for 64-bit versions of Office, Dictate brings dictation capabilities to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The app uses the same speech recognition engine found in Cortana to convert user speech into editable text using whatever microphone has been configured as the user’s default. Microsoft reveals the idea originated from a hackathon project, and has been used internally at Microsoft by over 1,500 employees spanning 40 countries. Speech recognition is… [Continue Reading]