These components are available to download via the “Windows 10 Features on Demand Pack 1” which you can find in your MSDN My Visual Studio downloads (the latest being version 2004). These are the components that I required for Dictation: Under the user context, going to the Speech settings would show all the options as greyed out and blank:Īfter raising this with Microsoft Support, this was the method we found to make it all work: An admin of the PC doing this however, would somehow trigger a component to install and Dictation would work fine.Īn admin of the PC doing this however, would somehow trigger a component to install and Dictation would work fine. I hit a problem where Dictation would say ‘Download a Speech package for dictation’, but clicking that link would take me to settings and show that it was already installed. Or ‘Select the next three words‘ to highlight them – basic cursor management you’d normally need a mouse for.Ī managed Windows 10 computer however, may not have all the components required to use Dictation, and a user may not have the access to download the speech packs themselves. Not only that, but you can give commands like a light version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking such as ‘delete test’ to delete the last word ‘test’. Press Winkey + H, and up comes a small prompt in the middle of your screen telling you it’s listening – you can start talking, and your words start appearing wherever your cursor is. Dictation is a pretty cool feature in Windows 10.

Windows speech to text