redesigned Dictation toolbar

(Originally posted June 6, 2022 By ~ Hadley Griffin)

Hello Officer Insiders! I’m Hadley Griffin, a Product Manager on the Natural User Experiences team. I’m excited to share with you the release of our redesigned Dictation Toolbar. It features updated visuals, a more responsive user interface, and a sleek design that doesn’t get in the way of what really matters: your content!

Redesigned Dictation Toolbar

Many of you have given us feedback that the Dictation toolbar often gets in the way of your typing. We heard you! We’ve now made the toolbar smaller and moved it to the side of the screen instead of in the middle. (Don’t worry, you can still move it wherever you like on the screen!)

We also know that sometimes it can be hard to tell if your voice is being heard or if the dictation experience is working properly. To address this, we added responsive animations to the redesigned dictation toolbar to give you visual feedback that the feature is detecting your voice.

How it works

1. Click here command button house Click the tab to launch the new Dictation toolbar in Word, Outlook, and OneNote.

   Dictation Toolbar in Word

2. Start speaking and watch your words being converted to text. Also note that the toolbar provides visual feedback to indicate that it is listening to your voice.

   The voice input toolbar shows that your speech is being converted to text.

Tips and Tricks

Read more Describes the punctuation and voice commands supported by this feature.

Scenarios to try

Here are some useful uses for the Dictation Toolbar:

• To brainstorm a list. (Tip: Use voice commands. “Start List” and “Next line” (This is done completely hands-free.)
• When you have something you want to say, but you can’t express it because you’re typing too fast.
• This refers to transferring text from a book or other printed material into a document or email.
• If you need to quickly draft content as a starting point for later editing or sharing with others.

Requirements

To use the dictation feature, you will need:

• Stable Internet Connection
• A working microphone (enable microphone permissions if requested)

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Supported Languages

The newly designed dictation toolbar is available in the following languages:

• Chinese (China)
• English (Australian)
• English (Canada)
• English (India)
• English (UK)
• English (US)
• French (Canada)
• French (France)
• German (Germany)
• Hindi
• Italian (Italy)
• Japanese
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Spanish (Mexico)

Preview Language*

• Arabic (Bahrain)
• Arabic (Egyptian)
• Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
• Bulgarian
• Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong)
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Croatian (Croatia)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch (Netherlands)
• English (New Zealand)
• Estonian
• Finnish
• Greek
• Gujarati (India)
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Ireland
• korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Maltese
• Marathi (India)
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• gloss
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Swedish (Sweden)
• Tamil (Indian)
• Telugu (India)
• Thai
• Turkish (Türkiye)
• Vietnamese

*Preview languages ​​may have lower accuracy or limited punctuation support.

effectiveness

The redesigned Dictation toolbar is now available in the following Office apps: Word for Windows, Mac, and web, Outlook for Windows and Mac, and OneNote for Windows and web.

We’ve started rolling out a new dictation toolbar to Office Insiders running the next build.

• Windows Beta Channel Version 2206 (Build 15321.20000) or later
• Mac Beta Channel Version 16.62 (Build 22052300) or later

Features are released over time to ensure everything works smoothly. They are released slowly to a larger number of Insiders, highlighting features you may not have. Sometimes we remove elements based on your feedback to make them even better. This is rare, but we also have the option to completely remove a feature from the product, even if you, as an Insider, had the opportunity to try it out.

feedback

We want to hear from you! Go to: help > feedback Let us know what you think about this feature in OneNote, Outlook, or Word.

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