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Typing with your voice

Typing with your voice

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Typing with your voice

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- [Instructor] I think Windows has finally got dictation right with the updated voice input feature activated by pressing the Windows + H keyboard shortcut. Think H for hello. First, ensure that you're using some app that accepts text, such as notepad here, or on the web, that a text box is active. Then press the Windows + H keyboard shortcut. Start speaking and Windows listens to your voice, comma, translating your verbal utterances into text, period, new line. Click the speaker icon to toggle starting and stopping. You can also press the Windows + H keyboard shortcut to toggle the microphone. And as a tip, you can verbally inform the dictation feature to stop. I'll run it again. This feature can be quite handy. Delete that. Stop dictation. Saying delete that removed the text I just uttered. Saying stop dictation deactivates the feature, though the window is still available. If you've used dictation on a…

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