Windows 11 has a training widget to get you started with the basics, but if your situation necessitates full voice control over your PC, you will need to invest quite a bit of time to learn the commands. One caveat to using Voice access is the abundant commands used to control the PC. You can launch and close applications, select and click items, navigate text, and activate keyboard keys - all hands-free. It showcases the idea that with AI and speech algorithms, controlling, navigating, or dictating an email just by voice can be a really effective way to interact with your PC. Voice access (and by extension, voice typing) may still be in preview status, but is nonetheless stable and feature-rich in Windows 11. The voices definitely sound more natural than before, but they still lack the realism and fluidity of, say, Cortana, let alone Google’s efforts. Once you have a voice installed, you can use it free of the internet. English, there will be three installable voices to choose from (Aria, Jenny, and Guy). If the default language on your PC is set to U.S. For greater control over how you want Narrator to work, you can dig deeper into its settings ( Windows key + Ctrl + N) to install different human voices, define how much Narrator speaks while you type, and so on. Launching Narrator at any time will automatically activate a screen reader, which you can use to explore and navigate pretty much all aspects of the UI and menus on Windows. Similar to Edge’s Read Aloud function, the Narrator tool in the OS now produces realistic speech with support for USB-connected Braille displays. While Narrator itself isn’t new, Windows 11’s iteration brings welcome quality-of-life improvements such as more natural narrator voice packs. Due to the resource-intensive nature of live, on-the-fly captioning, Microsoft suggests freeing some RAM by closing unused applications, but we didn’t notice any caption performance hiccups with 30 Chrome tabs and Adobe Photoshop running on a midrange laptop. There’s even an option to filter profanity out.
Also, we’re not 100% sure if this is a feature or a bug, but during full-screen videos, the captions automatically jump to a floating window rather than your default position.
The accuracy is solid for the most part, barring enunciation or quality issues from the source audio. We found a negligible quarter-second delay between real time and projected text. You can switch the caption position either to the top or bottom of the screen, or make it a floating window. Ranking all 12 versions of Windows, from worst to best These are the new AI features coming to Gmail, Google Docs, and Sheets Fitbit Versa 3ĭell’s first Windows 11 ARM laptop is priced like a Chromebook
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