Theldron Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Hi all, Got a new student that needs to use dictation through Microsoft Word to type out his coursework. Only thing is the we keep getting an error saying "Dictate needs internet connection to work. Please connect to the internet." I assume this is a firewall/proxy issue. Does anyone know what needs to be open to allow this to work? Many thanks
Theldron Posted October 12, 2018 Author Posted October 12, 2018 Hi all, Got a new student that needs to use dictation through Microsoft Word to type out his coursework. Only thing is the we keep getting an error saying "Dictate needs internet connection to work. Please connect to the internet." I assume this is a firewall/proxy issue. Does anyone know what needs to be open to allow this to work? Many thanks Help! I need somebody help!! Sorry the parents are jumping on my back and my legs are giving way on this. Any ideas?
round2it Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 (edited) ask your isp to do a network trace on the pc trying to use dictation see what is being blocked or look at something like text help read write gold it is really good for special needs students, reads pdfs dictation the lot might be worth investing in a site licence (Very cheap) Edited October 12, 2018 by round2it
Theldron Posted October 12, 2018 Author Posted October 12, 2018 Thanks mate, ill give that a try. Its the speech to text I need and I am not sure read write gold does that.
round2it Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 https://www.texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/assistive-technology-dyslexia-software/ it does what you require look half way down the page
round2it Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PICjsTERVnk&safe=true
jools96 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Did you ever find a solution to this? I've got exactly the same problem Many thanks Jools
Theldron Posted January 17, 2019 Author Posted January 17, 2019 Did you ever find a solution to this? I've got exactly the same problem Many thanks Jools Hi Jools, No, never could get the word dictation to work. But I worked around it by using the Windows 10 speech recognition which can also be used to type with. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-speech-recognition-windows-10 It worked well enough to keep them happy. 1
jools96 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 Thanks. That sounds like a good solution. It’s a shame the built in one doesn’t work as it’s very good when it does. It’s only for 2 students at the moment so I can’t afford to spend too much time troubleshooting Cheers Jools
free780 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 I fixed this today. There's a domain it uses which ends in bing.com. It needs allowing through your proxy with no authentication or https inspection. I'll try and get it tomorrow.
jools96 Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Thanks for your reply. I would be interested in hearing how you fixed it if you have time to post the solution Many thanks Jools
abaxter2 Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 The URL's that I needed to whitelist are: officespeech.platform.bing.com websockets.platform.bing.com These URL's cannot use a proxy server that needs authentication or https inspection, I just added a rule via GPO to not use the proxy server for these URL's. I also found that the dictation that is now built in to Word (Office 365 click to run version) also needs / uses "Office intelligent services" but I found with my devices that use office device based activation, that option to turn this on was not there, so I use the free addon: https://dictate.ms/ this still needs the above URL's whitelisted if you are using a proxy that needs authentication or https inspection, also if you do use the addon use the machine level installation option: https://dictate.ms/FAQ - Scroll down until you see: "Is it possible to do machine level installation instead of user level?" otherwise it will only work for user who installed the addon. Also to note that OneNote also uses the above URL's for its dictation feature. 1
jools96 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Thanks for taking the time to post your solution. Unfortunately I still can't get it working. I suspect for us it's a firewall issue. If I try it on the same computer but with a different internet line, it works. I will see if I can work out what needs to be allowed Jools
dmason2 Posted October 4, 2021 Posted October 4, 2021 Hi Jools Did you manage to find a solution to this, having the same issue at the moment and the links from the tread are now outdated Cheers
Oaktech Posted October 4, 2021 Posted October 4, 2021 We were unable to use the office 365 dictation due to the type and number of URL's that needed to be whitelisted. We chose to use the built in windows 10 accessibility options speech recognition, which, while it takes longer to train in the first place is actually more flexible.
dmason2 Posted October 4, 2021 Posted October 4, 2021 so after all the digging , oddly enough, the same feature in onenote works just fine
round2it Posted October 5, 2021 Posted October 5, 2021 i just went for dragon, i was impressed with it out of the box. Understands accents etc. very expensive but got the money from send so all is good
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