Problems with voice dictation.

Question

I have a peoblem with voice dictation.

First, let me say that the microphone works fine.  The Voice recognition part of the equation seems to work fine.  The problem is that the text doesn't make it's way to the target.

Here's an example.

I position the cursor in a text field.  Then I hit Win+H.  The dictation bar comes up at the top of the screen.  Then I start talking. My words appear in the text field, in grey with a little grey underline. When I stop talking, the text disappears. instead of being entered into the text field.  It's like there's some final decision about the process being made when istop talking, and it decides a against inserting the text.

This is a hit and miss kind of situation. Sometimes everything seems to work just fine. and other times it fails over and over.  For example, most of this message was done with dictation and it worked just great.

Then I go back to Facebook and try to enter in a comment with voice dictation and it fails over and over.  

so what's going on here?How do I get this to work reliably?

Answer 1

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response.

We would like to know if there is any non Microsoft voice dictator app installed in the PC. If yes, then try uninstalling the app and check.

Also, try disabling the Cortana feature from Windows Settings and try to dictate a sentence in notepad and check.

If you are still facing the issue, we would request you to upload the data as requested in the private message for further investigation.

We await your response.

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

Answer 2

I gotta say, voice dictation on my Mac is relatively bulletproof in comparison

Answer 3

yes, I've seen the problem with other websites besides Facebook. And I've seen it in oth edge and Chrome.

And in Notepad.

When I wanna know, is what's this little decision making process that happens at the end of dictating a line? As I am talking, The text appears in grey with a dotted underline, then it flutters a little and either disappears (when things fail) or reappears in black  (hewn it works.)  

if you don't know what I'm talking about regarding the fluttering, let me know and I'll do a video capture.

What's going on during that second or 2 of fluttering? 

I have aa theory that the grey underlined text is being selected and then any further input replaces the selected text.  And since it tries to add a space to separate the dictation text from whatever was already there, it replaces the grey underline text with a space.

Answer 4

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand how difficult it could be when things doesn’t work how they are supposed to. In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• Does the issue occur only while using Facebook?
• Which browser are you using to access Facebook?
• Are you aware of any major changes on the computer prior to this issue?

I suggest you to check if the issue persists while using Dictation in a Notepad file. If the issue is happening in Facebook, I suggest you to try using any other browser and check if the issue persists.

We await your response.

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator