How to add hands-free typing to Office apps

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Microsoft's Dictate brings speech recognition to Office using Cortana's technology, and here's how to use it.
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If there is one feature missing in Word, Outlook, and other Office apps is the ability to type hands-free. Sure, you can set up speech recognition in Windows, but it's not a really good experience, and it's a feature that hasn't been updated in a long time.
However, if you speak faster than you can type, the Microsoft Garage team has created Dictate, a new add-in that brings a good speech-to-text experience to Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
While Dictate is an experimental project, it's a powerful tool. It uses Cortana's speech recognition technology to convert voice into text in more than twenty languages, there is support for voice commands to control a dictation session, and it also includes real-time translation in sixty different languages.
In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to add and use Dictate to incorporate speech-to-text functionality into Office apps.

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