Typing with your voice – dictating text – has become an extremely common way to communicate. Better yet, you don't even need a stenographer. (Now I'm dating myself) I recently watched a friend quietly ...

AI still has a long way to go, but I’ll tell you one thing: Writing with your voice is getting a heck of a lot easier. Maybe you dictate text messages, but there’s so much more you can do if you start ...

Do you want to dictate your emails in Outlook instead of writing them? If yes, you have landed on the correct page. Outlook’s dictation tool is basically a speech-to-text tool that allows you to ...

I'll show you how to transcribe audio to text in Microsoft Word using two simple methods. You’ll learn how to use the Dictate and Transcribe tools built right into Word—no extra software needed.

Business owners who use the Apple iPad for work when away from the office may find the virtual keyboard restrictive and slow when typing documents and messages. The Dragon Dictation application for ...

Get a modern Android tablet. One of the new Nexus tablets should do the trick. The current release of Android has dictation that operates the way you're looking. As you talk, it processes, and it ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

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