Called Dictate, the add-in is currently compatible with the Windows desktop versions of Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. It lets you use your voice alone to create new documents, presentations and email ...

Dictate, a new project from Microsoft’s experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using your voice in Office programs including Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Microsoft is bringing Cortana speech recognition technology to the Office suite of applications. Check out the video below to learn more about what you can do with this new functionality, which is now ...

This story was originally published Oct. 7, 2016, and updated May 10, 2017 with new information. Windows has a feature it doesn’t like to talk about. While the OS lets you scrawl notes with a stylus, ...

Once a whimsical fantasy in the minds of creative science fiction writers, computers that understand human speech are now a reality. If you use a keyboard to type words into business documents, emails ...

Speech-recognition technology can boost efficiency and might someday make its mark on the enterprise -- if Microsoft would only promote it. I have to confess, I've always been somewhat of a daredevil.