Windows 11 Voice Access

Hi Alejandro Herrera, 

I understand it can feel confusing when Voice Access lets you add a word to the vocabulary but doesn’t provide a way to remove it. This behavior is partly influenced by the purpose of the feature at the moment.

Voice Access is intended to improve recognition over time, especially for uncommon words. When you add one to the vocabulary, the system biases recognition toward that word so it can better understand you in the future.

Because of this design, added words are currently treated as learning data, not meant for frequent editing. Accuracy improvement is more focused right now. And in most cases, this usually has minimal impact:

• It does not break commands or normal dictation.
• You can still correct text manually or with voice commands.
• The added word only influences recognition when you say something similar.

That said, this can still be considered a limitation. However, since contributors here cannot directly influence Microsoft products or access back‑end systems, the best way to request improvements is through official feedback channels:

• On your PC, press Win + F to open Feedback Hub.
• Or click the question mark (?) in Voice Access bar > Give Feedback.
• Clearly request: Allow removing or managing words in Voice Access vocabulary.

In short, the vocabulary of Voice Access acts as a learning database, missing the Remove option. The good news is in most of the times, even if a word was added by mistake, it typically has very little effect on daily use.

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Voice access currently documents how to add custom words to its vocabulary but does not document any way to remove individual words once added. The available options are:

• Add words from Voice access settings > Add to vocabulary.
• Add words after using “Spell that” or “Correct that”.
• Add words anywhere with the “Add to Vocabulary” voice command.

No removal or management mechanism for previously added words is described in the available documentation, so the behavior observed (no option to remove a mistakenly added word) is expected with the current feature set.

References:

• History of voice access updates
• Get started with voice access