Typing with your voice – dictating text – has become an extremely common way to communicate. Better yet, you don't even need a stenographer. (Now I'm dating myself) I recently watched a friend quietly ...

The Willow app for iPhone and Mac is an AI-driven virtual keyboard that lets you transcribe voice into text with remarkable ...

Apple is working on a fix for its text-to-speech feature, which momentarily transcribes the word “racist” as “Trump.” “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation, ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past ...

You can dictate notes in nearly every version of Microsoft OneNote by clicking the microphone icon. In OneNote for Windows 10, you'll find the Dictate option in the ...

With the launch of Mountain Lion comes the arrival of Dictation on the Mac. The new feature can convert speech to text within many applications. However, users are concerned about their privacy when ...

Apple has not made giant changes to dictation in macOS Sonoma, but yet again the small improvements it has introduced will significantly help users. Here's what's new in Dictation and how to make the ...

Do you want to dictate your emails in Outlook instead of writing them? If yes, you have landed on the correct page. Outlook’s dictation tool is basically a speech-to-text tool that allows you to ...

Justin Bieber slams Apple over a frustrating iPhone feature. The “Daises” singer shared a screenshot of the tiny microphone icon, also known as the dictation button, on Instagram. Bieber detailed his ...

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The first thing we suggest doing here is to check if your microphone is connected to the computer correctly. Unplug the device then plug it back in again. Finally, perform a dictation routine to see ...

More evidence of a speech-to-text feature that Apple is calling ‘Dictation’, at least for now, has surfaced in iOS 5 beta 5. The feature will most likely be using the technology that Apple is ...