When Dictate starts, you should either see a 'Listening' prompt or a red Mic icon. Once logged in, all you have to do is to press the Dictate button on the ribbon, and voila! You're good to go! You should see a small recording window with a Settings button, a Mic icon, and a question mark for Help. Alternatively, you can also use your Android device as a mic. If you don't have one yet, you can check out our guide to the best microphones. If you're planning to use this feature on your computer, make sure you have a microphone installed on your computer. Whatever platform you're using, you have to either log in or create a free Microsoft account to use the dictate feature. Microsoft Word is available in five different platforms-Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Web. Here is my own coding example of how I handle the voices loading on a text-to-audio reader: GreenGluon CMS: text-audio.js Also here: pronounce-that.So to help you eke out the most out of Word, we'll share how to get started with Dictate, the most common English commands you should know, and the languages the speech-to-text feature supports. Msg.text = document.getElementById('testDiv').textContent

Msg.voice = speechSynthesis.getVoices().filter(function(voice) ) Var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance() I am using Windows 10 - that probably should not matter. It seems it is ignoring the msg.voice value in the JavaScript below. Remark: I tried this html in MS Edge and Google Chrome multiple times with and without refreshing the page but it keeps speaking with the same male voice. Question: What I may be missing here and how can we make it speak in a female voice? My following HTML page correctly speaks the text but it is not speaking in a female voice Microsoft Zira Desktop - English (United States).

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