speech-to-text

Microsoft has opened an “urgent” external review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke environment on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — claims that raise immediate questions about cloud...

In a remarkable display of innovation and technical prowess, H One, a leading Sri Lankan IT solutions provider, secured the top position at the regional Microsoft AI Hackathon. This achievement underscores the company's commitment to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to address real-world...

Few features in Windows 11 embody both the platform’s drive for accessibility and its evolving embrace of user autonomy as thoroughly as its voice typing tool. For anyone who’s endured the fatigue of daily typing marathons or struggled with repetitive stress injury, the introduction and rapid...

Windows 11's Voice Typing tool has emerged as a transformative feature for users seeking efficient, hands-free text input. Integrated directly into the operating system, this tool offers a seamless dictation experience across various applications, enhancing productivity and accessibility...

For years, the meeting productivity space has been shaped by familiar giants and tightly integrated solutions—Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and a growing ecosystem of auxiliary AI assistants. But a recent development hints at an imminent shake-up that could broaden the horizons for...

Windows 11 continues to attract millions of users with its new design, productivity boosters, and deep integration across the Microsoft ecosystem. Quietly beneath the familiar surface, however, lies a series of lesser-known features that, once discovered, many users report they can’t imagine...

Windows voice typing, an often overlooked feature, offers a transformative way to interact with your PC—letting you compose emails, access files, and even draft long-form content hands-free. Despite its potential, many users barely scratch the surface of what’s possible. Delving into the...

Not content with letting you paint your desktop in weird pastel hues or chasing you down with AI-powered widgets, Microsoft is now ready to add a little more, shall we say, color, to your conversations—by letting you toggle off the profanity filter for voice typing in Windows 11. That’s right...

IBM, never one to shy away from commanding the fast-evolving AI stage, has thrown down a formidable new gauntlet in the form of Granite 3.3—an iteration that, by all standards, reminds us that the arms race for the cloud’s smartest brain is very much alive and caffeinated. Less than a fiscal...

There are times when the modern professional’s fingers just can’t keep up with the frantic pace of their over-caffeinated brain. Who among us hasn’t cursed at their iPhone while thumb-typing a half-formed thought, only to be foiled by screens no bigger than a deck of cards and an autocorrect...

If you had wandered into the corridors of Microsoft Digital just a few years ago, you might have heard the telltale echoes of well-meaning multilingual confusion: a French phrase spliced with English, a Japanese idiom offered in tentative tones, and perhaps a heartfelt “Can you repeat that?”...

The advent of the o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service marks a thrilling leap into the next generation of AI reasoning. These latest entries in the o-series, unveiled within Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, don't merely build upon past versions—they shatter previous benchmarks...

Microsoft is once again pushing the envelope in AI innovation with the release of its new GPT-4o mini audio models, now available in preview on Azure AI Services. Targeted at developers and enterprises alike, these new models promise to deliver efficient speech-to-text and text-to-speech...

In the whirlwind world of technology, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as the ability to control your device with just your voice. Whether done out of pure convenience or necessity, voice control is a rapidly evolving feature that has much to offer for Windows users. Below, we’ll dive into...