How to enable speech recognition in microsoft word 2007

Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. After training the software to recognize your speech patterns, put your voice to work by dictating text into budget reports, sales presentations and other business documents that you normally create by typing into Microsoft Word Click "Speech Recognition" to open the Speech Recognition control panel.

Click "Set up Microphone" to launch a wizard that helps you configure your microphone to work with Windows Speech Recognition.

Connect your microphone to your computer and follow the steps that the wizard provides. It will ask you to perform a few tasks and inform you the microphone is ready when you complete those tasks. How to use Dictation. Select your language. Punctuation Phrase s Output period, full stop. Punctuation Phrase s Output punto. Punctuation Phrase s Output point. Punctuation Punctuation Phrase s Output punkt satzende.

Punctuation Phrase s Output ponto final. Punctuation Phrase s Output punktum. Punctuation Phrase s Output punkt. Punctuation Phrase s Output punt. Punctuation Phrase s Output piste.

Markings may appear under words with alternates that we may have misheard. If the marked word is already correct, you can select Ignore.

Click on the gear icon to see the following settings: Auto Punctuation: Toggle the check-mark on or off, if it is available for the language chosen. By default, Dictation is set to your document language in Office. We are actively working to improve these languages and add more locales and languages. From here, open the drop-down menu and double-check that the language is set to English.

At the time of writing, nine languages were supported, with several others listed as preview languages. Preview languages have lower accuracy and limited punctuation support. This can be done at the click of a button when prompted. While built-in microphones will suffice for most general purposes, an external microphone can improve accuracy due to higher quality components and optimized placement of the microphone itself.

Now we get to the fun stuff. After completing all of the above steps, click once again on the dictate button.