Excessive typing is one of the most common reasons for repetitive strain injury on hands and the more people type on both keyboards and mobile phones, the bigger the problem is getting.

It increases productivity as you can talk much faster than you can type.

There are many reasons to use dictation software on your Mac but some of the most important ones are: Text to speech is already in everything from Siri to Google Docs although professional dictation software like Dragon Dictate offer much greater accuracy as they actually learn how you talk. However, most people can speak up to 4000 words in the same time period – that equals a massive potential increase in your productivity especially if you’re having to tediously document business operations. The average person can type anything up to 1000 words in half an hour.

Dictation Microphones To Enhance Recognitionĭictation software enables your Mac to translate spoken words into written text which enables you to write much more than typing alone.

Scroll down to the Speak command, select it, and then click Add.Īfter you have added the Speak command to your Quick Access Toolbar, you can hear single words or blocks of text read aloud by selecting the text you want to hear and then clicking the Speak icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. In the Choose commands from list, select All Commands. Next to the Quick Access Toolbar, click Customize Quick Access Toolbar. You can add the Speak command to your Quick Access Toolbar by doing the following in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote: To learn how to configure Excel for text-to-speech, see Converting text to speech in Excel. To use text-to-speech in different languages, see Using the Speak feature with Multilingual TTS. For example, if you're using the English version of Office, the English TTS engine is automatically installed. Depending upon your configuration and installed TTS engines, you can hear most text that appears on your screen in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words.

You can use Speak to have text read aloud in the language of your version of Office. Speak is a built-in feature of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

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