
I then discovered that I’d need to call it a Period, Dot or Decimal point. To figure this out, I had to look up the list of commands. I was still wondering how I’d do a full stop during a dictation. Relaunching it came back and seemed happy again. So, I had to find the running process in task manager and kill it. Now I was stuck and I couldn’t even close the program. Upon deletion the speech application in Windows 10 showed this message: When I said, ‘full stop’ it just displayed those words, so I deleted them.
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This wasn’t perfect, misinterpreting a word and putting the number ‘3’ but I then stopped, realizing I didn’t know how to do a full stop. I am testing speech to text recognition the 3 Windows 10 I’m expecting a bunch of errors and I’m not speaking very slowly so we’ll see what happens I’m expecting a bunch of errors and I’m not speaking very slowly so we’ll see what happens” “I am testing speech to text recognition through Windows 10. Without further ado, the next paragraph is speech to text from me, an Australian and having no real practice in speech to text, reading the next paragraph unscripted: That’s an expensive product though, and we’re looking at free component of Windows 10. These days Nuance’s Dragon is much easier to setup, the process is streamlined and they are still the industry leading solution for speech to text. Then if you were lucky you would only get a somewhat reasonable level of accuracy. whether you’ve used this product in the past or not be aware that, setting up the dictation was a long, tedious process to go through. In the past products like Nuance’s Dragon from years ago had dictation aspects for your use.

Without any setup (assuming your Windows 10 Language is set to English (US)), pressing the Windows Key + H will bring up a speech bar that gives a text prompt on what it’s expecting:Īfter it’s worked itself out, you’re ready to go – no training or phrases to go through. I couldn’t find too much online on why both existed, so though I’d put them to the test. There was still the older ‘Windows Speech Recognition’ which has been around for a while, but Dictation seems to be a more modern implementation.
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In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1803), a new voice recognition option turned up. Is Speech Recognition or Dictation in Windows 10 Good Enough Yet?
