Work in Dictation Mode

You can use Dictation Mode to enter text into a Word document by speaking into your microphone.

1. Click Microphone on the Language toolbar to turn on your microphone.

   

2. Click or say Dictation.

3. Say the words you want to appear in your document into the microphone.

   

   You can continue speaking while the light blue bar appears.

   You can include punctuation by saying the name of the punctuation mark you want to include.

   

   Tips and status messages appear here.

   These tips and status messages can help improve the accuracy of the speech recognition feature.

4. When you finish dictating, click or say Microphone.

   

I keep saying a word and speech recognition does not seem to understand; is there some way to force it to understand?

Yes. With your microphone on, click Tools on the Language toolbar and then click Add/Delete Word(s). In the Add/Delete Word(s) window, type the word you want to record; then, click Record pronunciation and say the word. When speech recognition finishes recording, the word appears in the Dictionary list.

If I make a mistake while dictating, what should I do?

You can say “Backspace” repeatedly to have Word delete the characters, from right to left, of the last word you said. Speech recognition understands the names of most of the keys on your keyboard; for example, you can say “Enter” to begin a new paragraph.