From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training (2023)
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Control Windows using voice commands - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training (2023)
Control Windows using voice commands
- [Instructor] Voice Access is an accessibility tool that lets users control Windows using their voice. This can be very valuable for people who cannot use their hands. To get this set up, we'll need to go to Settings, so from the Start menu, I'll open Settings. On the left, we'll go to the category for Accessibility, then scroll to the Interaction section. Then go to Speech where we see the option for Voice Access, and we can click this switch to turn it on. If you are turning this on for the first time, there will be a prompt letting you know that you have to let it download and install something before it will work. I'm going to click the Download button to let it do that setup. This does take some time, so I'll skip forward to when that's finished. When that finishes installing, you can choose which microphone you want to use. Now, it doesn't matter if you only have one microphone on your computer, but if you do have multiple audio input devices, you should choose the one that you…
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