Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC

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.

Action

Do this

Turn on voice typing

To stop voice typing

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

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

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

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

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

Select Next orinstall 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 logo 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 (Bokml)

Polish

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian (Romania)

Russian

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish (Mexico)

Spanish (Spain)

Swedish (Sweden)

Tamil (India)

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Vietnamese

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.

Voice typing command

What you can say

Stop or pause voice typing

Delete last spoken word or phrase

Select last spoken word or phrase

Voice typing command

What you can say

Stop or pause voice typing

Delete last spoken word or phrase

Select last spoken word or phrase

Voice typing command

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Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC