Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview builds bring a tangible — and in many ways overdue — improvement to speech-to-text on Windows by introducing Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access, a smarter, faster, on-device dictation mode designed to make spoken text appear as natural, punctuated prose rather...
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Microsoft’s upcoming update to Windows 11’s voice typing feature is about to change the way users interact with their devices—and the language they use. For years, one of the most notorious quirks in digital communication has been the way speech-to-text services censor profanity by automatically...
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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...
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For years, Windows users have encountered a curious form of digital etiquette: an ever-watchful profanity filter embedded within the voice typing feature of Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you attempted to dictate anything even vaguely resembling a swear word, the result was almost always a parade...
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Microsoft's voice typing feature in Windows has long been a valuable tool for users seeking hands-free text input. However, a notable limitation has been its automatic censorship of profane language, which has sparked discussions among users desiring more control over their dictation content...
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They say the best ideas come to us in the shower, on a walk, or—much less glamorously—while slouched in traffic, dictating voice memos to ourselves in a bid to salvage inspiration before it vanishes into the ether. For years, the promise of smartphones has been to bridge these moments of...
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Windows Phone 8.1 will be hitting phones soon now. Yeah, I know all of YOU are running the Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview, but for the general user, most should be getting in the coming weeks and months (insert standard disclaimer that your mileage may vary, dates are estimates and under external...
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