speech recognition setup

[mrstrong]

Hi,

 

teacher has requested to use "talk to type" on her new laptop

Its windows 10 Ed 1903 with word 2016.

 

The inbuilt mic seems ok but when i turn on speech recognition and go through the setup it asks me what type

of mic I am using: headset, desktop or other.

 

Whichever one I choose on the next wizard page where you have to read out some text it doesn't hear anything

so I have to cancel out.

 

However if I hit "windows key"+H it sometimes starts listening (sometimes it says "something went wrong"!) but I have got

it to recognize text in the outlook web app (office 365 email) running in google chrome.

 

Also if I try windows-H in Word 2016 (this is where she really wants to use it most) it says "dictation isn't fully supported"

and doesn't recognize anything.

 

Any ideas?

 

I wonder if there is some GPO setting (e.g. for coratanna?) that is to blame ?

[tapb]

Hi,

 

teacher has requested to use "talk to type" on her new laptop

Its windows 10 Ed 1903 with word 2016.

 

The inbuilt mic seems ok but when i turn on speech recognition and go through the setup it asks me what type

of mic I am using: headset, desktop or other.

 

Whichever one I choose on the next wizard page where you have to read out some text it doesn't hear anything

so I have to cancel out.

 

However if I hit "windows key"+H it sometimes starts listening (sometimes it says "something went wrong"!) but I have got

it to recognize text in the outlook web app (office 365 email) running in google chrome.

 

Also if I try windows-H in Word 2016 (this is where she really wants to use it most) it says "dictation isn't fully supported"

and doesn't recognize anything.

 

Any ideas?

 

I wonder if there is some GPO setting (e.g. for coratanna?) that is to blame ?

 

In Word Online and Word desktop (+OneNote, OneNote Online, Outlook, Outlook Online) you can click the Dictate button but you must be using Office 365 ProPlus

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/dictate-your-documents-d4fd296e-8f15-4168-afec-1f95b13a6408

 

In Windows 10, Windows + H used to be for US English only initially. What build of Windows are you running.

Here is an amazing summary of all Accessibility features in Microsoft products and is updated regularly http://aka.ms/accessibilitysway