Does dictation in 0365 connect to an external server?

Question

Hi All

I work for a law firm and as such, data integrity and security is paramount. We have a user who wants to use dictation in word and outlook (using the dictate button, not the system wide dication). before this approved i need to know if this sends any data externally to another server and i can't seem to find this info

Answer 1

Hi @Ben Downing

According to the article, Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author content in Microsoft 365 with a microphone and reliable internet connection.

For real-time Speech-to-Text, audio input will connect to Microsoft speech recognition engine, and is processed only on the server memory, but no data is stored at rest.

For more, please refer to this link.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-to-text/data-privacy-security

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