1. Easiest Way To Enable Pc To Speak Text

I'm switching from a Mac and I can't get the dictation to work in Word at all either. I've done everything I know how to do to find a program called 'Windows Speech Recognition', but nothing. I'm sure there must be a way to dictate in to Word 2016, but if it involves WSR, I sure can't find it. The two most appealing features are its speech to text feature (i.e. Dictating Word documents without ever needing to touch your keyboard) and its voice control capacity (i.e. Controlling all Windows native menus and apps using nothing more than the sound of your voice).

How do I get the computer to read selected text aloud? I know about Narrator, and she's simply looking around too hard for things to do. She won't read just one thing, but instead tells me all about windows I've opened, menus I've clicked on, etc. What I'd really like is to be able to select one or more paragraphs of text and have the computer voice read it aloud, ideally invoked with a right-click of the mouse button and choosing 'Read Aloud' or similar. Then I could be doing something else while listening.

I had a program that would do this in the early 1990s to do this under Windows NT. Clearly it should be even better now. Is there a way I can get Windows to do this right out of the box? If not, given the capability of Windows Narrator, why not? Windows xp read documents to me in Microsoft Sam voice. Free text apps for computer. On of the reasons I rejected Vista was because of the lack of that feature. Although the voice sounds better in windows 7 it won’t read emails or word documents back to me.

Speak the text you'd like to transcribe clearly into the computer or device microphone. Your words will appear in the text field. Select Done or the fn key; Your Mac computer will listen up to 30 second at a time. For more details, see Apple's article. To turn speech recognition on or off: Click the Windows Start button. Open an application in which you want to dictate text, such as Notepad, WordPad, Microsoft Word, or your email software. As long as you're running the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or higher.

And I’m not going to waste my time posting in some forum HOPING Microsoft will listen to some average joe. Doesn’t even know why im wasting my time here.

Time to go back to XP and Microsoft Sam. Or a third party application.

Easiest Way To Enable Pc To Speak Text

More likely windows xp. There may be many gramer and spelling mistakes here but since I'm using windows 7 I wont have this rant read back to me. So here it is as is with no read aloud proofreading! Does nobody else use text to speech for proofreading? Its the besy wat to catch any mistakes. You 'hear' mistakes you cant 'see' in print!!!!!!!!! Most awsome thing about writing stuff on computers I think!