More Microsoft Office users will now be able to use the software's text-to-speech feature, as the company announced that it has increased the number of languages supported in Microsoft Dictate. According to a new video from the software giant, Microsoft Dictate now supports Chinese (Taiwanese), Hindi, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, and Thai, in addition to Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. . (Brazil) and Spain. While Office web and mobile users can access this feature for free, doing so on Windows and Mac requires a subscription to Microsoft XNUMX.
(Image credit: Microsoft)
Introduction to Microsoft Dictate
To try Microsoft Dictate yourself, you must first sign in to your Microsoft account using Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. From there go to
Home, choose
Dictate and new users will be prompted to enable microphone permissions on their smartphone or computer. Now a microphone icon will appear and you will need to wait for it to turn on to make sure you have started listening. It should be noted that Windows XNUMX users can use the keyboard small
Alt + ' to turn your microphone on and off. Office users can enter punctuation at any time by saying it explicitly like "full stop" over a period, and can also move down a line by saying "new line." You can locate even more commands for Microsoft Dictate by consulting this support document. If you haven't tried dictation in a while, you may be surprised as text-to-speech technology has come a long way in recent times and is now considerably more accurate. Through MSPoweruser