Dictate is Microsoft's tool to facilitate productivity. Is it really useful?

One of Microsoft's premises for some time now is trying to improve user productivity with its systems and applications We have seen it in applications such as To-Do or the app of its search engine, Bing. Some applications that offer great performance but require user interaction through gestures.

The touch is therefore still present and that is what the Microsoft utility that we have tested these days tries to avoid and that under the name of Microsoft Dictate, allows users to type with their voice in Word, PowerPoint and OutlookAnd the experience has been quite good.

This is a development of the company's R&D group, Microsoft Garage. A functionality that appears integrated into some of the brand's best-known programs such as three of the members of the Microsoft Office suite: Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

If you want to try it, you can download it from the Microsoft Dictate website and install it on your computer. A quick and easy process that only takes a few seconds.

Dictate is based on the use of the same voice recognition and artificial intelligence that we find in Cortana. This is a utility that can be tested on the most recent versions of beneficiary applications on both Windows and macOS.

Dictate has two striking features: the possibility to translate in real time for more than 60 languages and thesupport for voice typing in more than 20 languagesIn this way, thanks to the first functionality, we can speak in Spanish and have the system translate and write simultaneously.

We have tested both methods in Word and the performance has been quite good, being more surprising the translation and simultaneous writing in which no We have found bugs almost after several tests. Yes, we have had a dispute with the punctuation marks that we have ended up using by hand.

At the moment Microsoft Dictate is only available for those three applications, although hopefully it hopes that over time it will become available other utilities in which the use of large amounts of text is essential.

Have you tried Dictate yet? What is your impression of how it works?

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