Click 'Yes' to install the speech software when prompted if it is not already installed. Open the 'Tools' menu from the menu toolbar, and click the 'Speech' button.Ģ.
Speech To Text For Microsoft Word 2013 Word1. What makes Dictate different is the use of Cortana voice recognition technology. Most media have just reported Microsoft’s hype, we’ve actually tested Dictate and here’s what we’ve found. Microsoft has released an interesting new tool for Office 2013/2016 which promises to be a major improvement on current ‘speech to text’ options. SpeechTexter is an online multi-language speech recognizer, that can help you type long documents, books, reports, blog posts with your voice. This is quite an advance over having to purchase a two hundred dollar application to accomplish the same end. MacOS X recently introduced Dictation (speech-to-text) as a feature usable in any application that takes text as input. Speech to text (STT) is a bit more difficult than text to speech (TTS) which has been in use much longer.
It also supports the languages installed in your Windows 10 OS. Default language supported is English US. Speech to text converter tool is used to convert any voice into plain text. Speech Tools incorporates Windows Media Player. Click the Open button to select a media file and you’re ready to get to work. Click the Transcribe button to open the Transcription panel inside the Microsoft Word document window. Select “Upload Audio.Speech Tools puts everything you need inside Microsoft Word. The “Transcribe” pane will open in the right-hand side of the window. In the “Home” tab, click the arrow next to “Dictate” and then select “Transcribe” from the menu that appears. If you already have an audio file that you want to transcribe, you can upload it to Word. Once selected, the audio recording and the content of the transcript will appear in the document. When you’re finished editing the transcript, you can add it to the document by selecting the “Add All To Document” button at the bottom of the pane. Here’s the function of each button, from left to right: This is necessary if the transcript is long, and you can’t remember exactly who said what. If necessary, you can use the playback controls to revisit the audio recording. You can also edit the name of the speaker, as well as every instance where the speaker (i.e., Speaker 1 or Speaker 2) appears by ticking the box next to “Change All Speaker.” When you’re finished, click the checkmark. Now you can edit the transcription found in this section. You can edit a section of the transcript by hovering your mouse over the incorrect text and then selecting the pen icon. You might notice that the transcript doesn’t perfectly reflect the recorded audio accurately. If Word can’t detect multiple speakers, you’ll just see “Speaker.” If Word detects multiple speakers, you’ll see “Speaker 1,” Speaker 2,” and so on.
Microsoft automatically separates the text by the speaker. Each section will have a timestamp, the speaker’s name, and the transcribed text. Once this is done, you’ll see the transcription appear in the same pane you recorded the audio.
It may take a few minutes for Word to finish transcribing the audio recording and uploading it to OneDrive.
You won’t see the transcription happen live as you’re speaking because Microsoft found that to be a bit too distracting during its testing.Īfter you’re finished, click the “Pause” button and then select “Save and Transcribe Now.”