Applies To
Windows 11 Windows 10

With voice typing, you can enter text on your PC by speaking. Voice typing uses online speech recognition, which is powered by Azure Speech services.

To use voice typing, you'll need to be connected to the internet, have a working microphone, and have your cursor in a text box.

Once you turn on voice typing, it will start listening automatically. Wait for the "Listening..." alert before you start speaking.

To turn on voice typing:

  • Press Windows  key+H on a hardware keyboard.

  • Press the Microphone button on the touch keyboard.

To stop voice typing:

  • Say a voice typing command like "Stop listening".

  • Press the microphone button on the voice typing menu.

Notes: 

  • Press Windows  key+Alt+H to navigate through the voice typing menu with your keyboard.

  • Echo cancellation ensures Voice Typing listens only to your voice. It automatically suppresses audio coming from your speakers, such as Narrator or app playback so your dictated text stays clean, accurate, and free from unintended echoes. 

You can use a voice typing language that's different than the one you've chosen for Windows. Here's how:

  1. Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

  2. Find Preferred languages in the list and select Add a language.

  3. Search for the language you'd like to install, then select Next.

  4. Select Next or install any optional language features you'd like to use. These features, including speech recognition, aren't required for voice typing to work.

To see this feature's supported languages, see the list in this article.

To switch voice typing languages, you'll need to change the input language you use. Here's how:

  • Select the language switcher in the corner of your taskbar

  • Press Windows  key+Spacebar on a hardware keyboard

  • Press the language switcher in the bottom right of the touch keyboard

These languages support voice typing in Windows 11:

  • Bulgarian

  • Chinese (Simplified, China)

  • Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR)

  • Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dutch (Netherlands)

  • English (Australia)

  • English (Canada)

  • English (India)

  • English (New Zealand)

  • English (United Kingdom)

  • English (United States)

  • Estonian

  • Finnish

  • French (Canada)

  • French (France)

  • German

  • Gujarati

  • Hindi

  • Hungarian

  • Irish

  • Italian (Italy)

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Maltese

  • Marathi

  • Norwegian (Bokmål)

  • Polish

  • Portuguese (Brazil)

  • Portuguese (Portugal)

  • Romanian (Romania)

  • Russian

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Spanish (Mexico)

  • Spanish (Spain)

  • Swedish (Sweden)

  • Tamil (India)

  • Telugu

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Vietnamese

Select the gear icon from the voice typing flyout to manage settings for: 

  • Voice typing launcher, which lets you quickly use voice typing when you’re in a text box.

  • Automatic punctuation, to let voice typing automatically insert punctuation based on what you’re saying.

  • Filter profanity, which lets you block or allow typing out profanity.

  • Default microphone.

  • Wait time before acting setting allows users to choose how long Voice typing waits before carrying out a voice command. This provides greater flexibility for users with varying speech patterns, enabling more accurate recognition whether speaking slowly or quickly.

Fluid dictation is a new feature in Voice typing on Copilot+ PCs, that makes voice-based dictation smoother and smarter. It automatically corrects grammar, punctuation, and filler words as you speak, reducing the need for manual editing. This experience is powered by on-device small language models (SLMs) to ensure fast and private processing.

Note: This is a Copilot+ PC feature and is available in all English locales.

Setting up Fluid dictation

For Fluid dictation to work, we need to ensure the necessary SLMs are installed into your system. This happens automatically in the background when you launch Voice typing and until the model download is completed, you will see the Fluid dictation option in Voice typing settings appears dimmed.  You can check the model progress by clicking on view progress from the teaching tip that appears on launching voice typing about setting up new features or directly navigate to Settings > Windows update and check the progress on the AI Phi Silica model.

Once the model download is successfully completed, you will be notified via a teaching tip and will see the fluid dictation option available.  

Note: Fluid dictation is enabled by default. You can turn it off from Voice typing settings at any time.

Using fluid dictation

Once Fluid dictation is enabled, it works seamlessly across all text editing surfaces. You can dictate as usual, and grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors will be automatically corrected and inserted into the text. If you prefer to keep the original sentence or undo a correction, simply say “Revert” or “Undo that” or Ctrl+Z on your keyboard and Voice typing will restore the original version.  

Note: Fluid dictation will be automatically disabled on secure fields like passwords or PINs to protect your privacy. 

Turn Fluid dictation on or off

You can turn on or off fluid dictation from Voice typing settings.

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Use voice typing commands to quickly edit text by saying things like "delete that" or "select that".

The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language.

Note: If a word or phrase is selected, speaking any of the "delete that" commands will remove it.

Use voice typing commands to insert punctuation marks.

The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language.

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