You can talk to Windows using the built-in speech recognition or text dictation features. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of personal tech. He loves watching old ...

Is dictation old-fashioned, too teacher-centered, and boring, or can it be fun, challenging, and a good way to spot students’ language strengths and weaknesses? A post “Why Dictation?” over at My ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

In case you are unaware, Apple provides a range of Accessibility features on Mac — especially with the recent versions of macOS. Accessibility features, essentially, are features that aid people with ...

Dragon has been around conceptually since 1975 and was incorporated into systems going all the way back to DOS. Still, it didn’t really start to shine until 1997 with the release of NaturallySpeaking ...

Voice dictation wasn’t used to create this article on how to use Google Docs’ voice typing, but it could have been. The service is actually very accurate and quite flexible, thanks to Google’s ...

Chromebooks are incredibly capable devices. Because of their simplicity, these devices are also great for those always on the go. They can serve as your means to be productive, entertain you, and keep ...

I refer to the letter by Jeff Chung ("Dictation classes teach students to memorise, rather than understand", April 13). While I share his distaste for dictation, I do not agree that the dictation ...

You’re probably familiar with using Siri to make calls on your iPhone, as well as to open apps on your iOS device, get information, and set up appointments. But you may be less familiar with iOS’s ...

Even as Microsoft tweaks its final bits of code in preparation for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, its development teams are moving on to the next major feature update of Windows, known as 20H1. Yes, ...