hi there welcome to teachers Tech my name is Jamie and it's great to have you here today exclamation
mark pause dictation so you can see I'm practicing little voice typing with Microsoft Word here today
now it can do a lot more than just adding simple punctuation and writing what you say you can do
formatting you could be adding lists and tables and so much more so today on teacher's Tech I
want to go over and show you how powerful this voice typing by using dictate in Microsoft Word is
addiction so first of all where are you going to find dictate in Microsoft Word well you're
going to find it under the Home tab so take a look at the tabs make sure you're under
home and in the ribbon on mine go all the way to the right and you can see dictates
right here so you can click on it and it will open up and it's starting right away
the other place it does work online too so if I go to my Microsoft Word online and let me just
open uh that up real quickly you can see here's my online version here I am under home and here
is dictate right here and it's going to work very well from the online version too so those
are just it was where you're going to find it let's get started with some of the functions
I'll be working from the installed app on my computer on my desktop with Microsoft Word today
I just want to point out you can move this around if you grab the top here you get the move handles
and you can place it where you would like I just want to jump into settings real quickly because
if you speak a different language you might want to change this to get the best results
now click on the settings here and you're going to get the spoken language drop down you can see
all the different languages that are available some they're testing out they're always trying
to improve this with Microsoft let me know in the comments if the different language languages work
well for you or not unfortunately I don't speak any other languages to test this out you can see
where you're going to make sure you have the correct microphone selected and then you have
a couple toggles that you can turn on and off and you can test those too to see how it works for you
so I'm just going to hit cancel I'm just going to hit the uh the start dictation here and I'll show
you a good command that you might want to know so if I go ahead and start this and just start
talking today we're going to be learning about how to use for is typing inside Microsoft Word
delete
delete that
pause dictation so you can see I used about three different commands there I didn't put
any punctuation in and I'll go over the different commands in a moment but you want to make sure
that you do try to pronounce your words I find if I just start talking if I start talking too
quickly sometimes Microsoft Word dictation can't keep up it does a very good job but you know
you'll have to go through and format it maybe correct some words add some capitalization this
gives you an idea as I'm trying to talk faster to show you how much is there now I showed you
delete that so delete that takes everything away
of that last phrase because I never added any dictation pause dictation
so you can see that time I said pause dictation too quickly and it just put it in as a phrase if
I say delete it just takes away the last word delete that takes away everything now I'm just
going to open up this help here because this is where we're going to find all the commands here
and let's go over some key ones here with punctuation you just need to be saying that
specific punctuation so here's an example if I go ahead and start using this period
how was your day today question mark it's going great exclamation mark
pause dictation
so you can see just to add in periods or question marks or exclamation marks it's
pretty easy if you look over at punctuation here you can see all the lists here that
you can do so if I need a new line you just say new line so it'd be like this new line new line
did you see how I created a new line there question mark
positive dictation so need a new line go ahead and just say new line all these I'm not going to
go over all these but you can see we have colon semicolon open quote close quotes we'll just say
take some practice in order to remember what to say on this now let's move over to editing take
a quick look at the editing functions here I already showed you a few here I was saying
delete and delete that there's also undo and you can see we have delete last and delete so that's
going to be the word or phrase we have all these different things all you have to do is say insert
space backspace or backspace and you give it a number in between here so let's try this foreign
dictation so you can see it brought back the cursor 8 spot so you can get very specific
if you're trying to uh you know if you're trying to format in here all right let's
move down here we're going to take a look at formatting when you're using
formatting say it before you get saying your words so here's an example new line
bold
is this text bold now
underline
now whatever I say will be bold and underlined
bold if I say bold again bold should be gone
underline if I say underline again underline will be gone so you can see delete
positive dictation so you can see if I say it twice it turns it on or off and
they don't really say it very well at that point when you're just looking at this so
if you can see it beforehand uh that's what I would suggest if you need a list
that's no problem using dictation you can just simply use these commands start number list
cat
new line 34 percent
new line winky faced
positive dictation so you can see I added some list and I just made some quick comments about
you could do uh symbols uh through these if you wanted to add things like uh percent uh you can
add all these different ones so that would be more mathematical but any of them you can just
say them as you go through we can add currency by just saying dollar sign the pound sterling
all these different ways and you can see I added an emoji in here and you have a few different
options for that I do want to point out just some more information here about some tips if
you open this one up you can see how I mentioned before we can say delete that or delete and they
have a few different uh different tips in here to take a look through go ahead and play with
this now and see all the different things that you can try to see if this will actually be a
benefit for you maybe it's a good way for you to kind of get your ideas out in here
the one thing I did want to mention if you don't see dictate on your Microsoft Word you
do need to be a part of the I have a Microsoft 365 subscription so that could be why if you're
not seeing it well I hope you like these tips for using voice typing inside Microsoft that
word this week thanks for watching I'll see you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials