Hi everyone, Kevin here. Today, we're going to look at how you can type on your PC just
by using your voice. And you can even command your PC, like launch the KevinCookieCompany.com.
That's pretty cool. The technology has gotten so good. Let's check this out. We're going to start
with Windows 11, and first you need to open up some type of text field that you can type into.
I've gone with the most basic example of opening up Notepad, but you could also open up,
say a web browser with Gmail, and you can use this to compose an email message.
To launch the dictation tool, press the Windows key together with H, H as in hotel.
The Kevin Cookie Company has the best cookies in the world. Have you tried
their cookies? Stop listening. You could turn off dictation by saying, stop listening. You
can also press Windows H again, or you can come down here and click on this button. All in all,
it did a very good job with the dictation. Here, it capitalized each letter of the Kevin Cookie
Company. It also included punctuation. Here's a period, and here it correctly identified that
this was a question and it included a question mark here. If you go down to the settings gear,
here there's the option to turn on automatic punctuation. I find that it's really convenient
to turn this on, so I would recommend toggling this on. You can also use the tool for very
basic commanding. I'll have it listen again, new paragraph. If not, you should order today.
And with that command, it automatically inserted a new paragraph. To see all the
different commands available, over here, click on the question mark icon to learn more. This opens
up a website that tells you all about voice typing. If you scroll down just a little bit,
there's a category for voice typing commands, and here you can say these various commands,
for example, pause voice typing, and that'll stop or pause the voice typing. You could say delete
that, and that'll remove the last sentence that you entered. Or you could even say select that,
and that'll select the sentence. You have a few different options here. Back within the
voice typing tool, there's one more setting that's extremely useful. I'll click on these
settings gear and at the very top, there's the option that says voice typing launcher.
When you toggle this on and then you click out of your text field, you'll notice that the voice
typing tool disappears. But if I click back into a text field, here it automatically launches the
voice typing tool, and I simply click on this icon and that will resume the voice typing. Along with
simply dictating text, you can also command your entire PC. Let's look at what I mean by that. On
Windows 11, go down to your start menu and then search for voice typing and click on the best
match. This opens up the accessibility settings for speech. And right here, you'll see the option
for voice access. Let's toggle this on. Then you can close this settings window. Now that we've
turned on voice access, you'll see that there's this new bar on the top of the screen. Let's click
on this icon to turn it on. Open Edge, maximize window, KevinCookieCompany.com, enter, close Edge,
open Notepad. All of our cookies are made from only the best ingredients like high fructose corn
syrup. The really neat thing is I can use this tool to command my PC, so let's say open or close
applications, maximize a window, and you can also use it for dictation. Here, I had it enter in some
text. To see all the different ways that you could command your PC, in the top right-hand corner,
click on the question mark icon. And here you can view all commands and there are so many different
commands available. You have all sorts of commands that let you interact with apps. You can also
interact with controls. You can dictate text, you can select text, you could also edit text. So,
you have so many different options here. It's well worth looking at if you'd like to control your
PC using your voice. You can also use dictation directly within the Microsoft Office apps, like
Word, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and you get some additional functionality. Within Microsoft
Word, up on the home tab, on the ribbon, go over to the voice category, and here there's the option
for dictate. Here's a list of my favorite cookies, colon, bold favorite, start list,
chocolate chip, new line, snickerdoodle, new line, oatmeal raisin, delete last sentence. I mean,
honestly, oatmeal raisin, that's not my favorite, so let's make sure to remove that from the list.
Here you can see that not only can you dictate text and have it write your text, but you could
also tell it to say bold a certain word or to start a list. So, you get quite a bit of richness
here when you're trying to compose text. Just like we saw in all of the other experiences. If we go
over to the dictate tool over here, you can click on the question mark icon and this opens up help.
This shows you all the different commands that you can use. You could say different punctuation. They
have different editing controls. You could have it delete the last sentence, the last
few words. You can have it apply formatting. You could also add comments. So here too, just like
we saw in the other experiences, you have lots of different options, but this is more catered
towards authoring a document. Let's say you don't have Windows 11, or maybe you don't have Microsoft
Office, you can still take advantage of voice typing using Google Docs. Here I am within Google
Docs, and you can navigate here by clicking on the link in the top right-hand corner or going to
the link in the description down below. Just like with Windows and also the different Office apps,
you can also use voice typing here. Up on the top menus, click on the tools menu, and right down
here, there's the option for voice typing. You can also press the shortcut key control, shift, and S.
When you click on that, you'll see this new icon appear with a microphone. You simply click on
that and it'll start listening. I hope I've now convinced you that the Kevin Cookie Company does
indeed have the best cookies in the world. Once you're all done, you can simply click
on that icon and it'll stop listening. And here too, this also has extremely high quality and it
also includes punctuation. If you hover over this icon, here in the bottom right-hand corner, you'll
see this question mark icon. Let's click on that. This opens up help over on the right-hand side,
and if we scroll down, you'll also see that you have all sorts of different commands here
as well. You can select text; you can format your text using these different commands. So,
you'll find similar functionality to what you get in say Word, Outlook,
and also Windows. All right, well, hopefully you don't have to type as much anymore. In fact,
you could leave a comment down below simply by dictating it. To watch more videos like this one,
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