You can enable “Voice Control” by navigating to “Apple logo menu > System Preferences… > Accessibility > Voice Control” section. Note: Similar to Windows Speech Recognition, Mac also has a “Voice Control” feature to control the system with your voice inputs. Windows 11 shows an information about “Voice typing” option in “Settings > Accessibility > Speech” section. The speech to text conversion is called voice typing in Windows OS. Using Dictation (Voice Typing) in Windows 11

If you have multiple input language packs installed, then you can switch the language from taskbar or use “Win + Space” keys. Windows will use the default system language. On Mac, you can switch the language while using the function.

Dictation works in English and most other popular languages like Chinese, German, Spanish, French, etc.

This means you can’t use dictation without internet connection.

The function needs stable internet connection for converting your voice online using AI.

So, dictation may not be the option for you if you are concerning about privacy.

However, your voice inputs will be sent to Apple and Microsoft for processing.

It works by listening your voice using system’s microphone.

There are no setup or configuration required for using voice inputs.

Dictation in Windows and Macīefore using dictation feature in Windows or Mac, make sure to understand the followings. You can use this on any text box or text area to speak and convert your voice inputs to text content. Good thing is that both Windows and macOS comes with a system wide dictation feature. However, this is not a common feature in other apps like Apple Pages. Applications like Microsoft Word offers in-built dictation feature which you can use for typing with voice inputs/commands. Dictation or voice typing is the speech to text technology to convert audio input to readable text.

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