"For a reliable Windows talk-to-text solution, you don't even need to look elsewhere, as Microsoft's newest OS already comes with one" "Packed with various features and extensive customization capabilities, Dragon is the gold standard of speech recognition programs." Yes it is free to download the basic edition.Best Overall: Dragon Professional Individual See our other product Speaking Email CarPlay if you have CarPlay. People with blindness, vision problems, or other disabilities who cannot see or type and want to be able to hear, reply to, and compose emails by voice. People who want to make productive use of time when driving to work. People who are busy and run out of time to get through their inbox. It works with Microsoft 365 (aka Office, Outlook) and Gmail email accounts, as well as most other providers including any standard IMAP server. And it lets you action your email - archive, mark-as-read, trash, flag - using voice commands or on-screen buttons. It intelligently extracts content from emails (minus the signatures, disclaimers and threads). If you can't hear any speech output, check out the possible reasons here:Īn app for iPhone and Android that reads your email out loud to you. (Note if you have Basic Edition voice options will not be available) Voice samples are played when you tap so you can tell what they sound like. Choose one of these or add a language and then choose which voice you prefer. Speaking Email lists any languages you have voices selected for.In Speaking Email go to Preferences > Speech Speed, Voices & Language.Download the voices in any languages you need.Note that Speaking Email won't use Samsung or other vendor voices - so you need to enable the Google voices as your default TTS engine.Ensure you have "Google Text to Speech" selected and the correct language. Look under Accessibility > Text-to-speech output.Find the 'uninstall' button which may be under the dots menu, which will factory reset it. This needs to be enabled, and it has been known to auto update and cause speech system issues. Look in system settings > apps > Speech Services by Google. Speech Services by Google may also be a source of issues. If something is disabled it will detect and prompt you guide you how to turn it on. The best way to check is to open Google Voice Assistant. You may have some system setting inadvertently disabled. For example en-NZ is not available offline so you must use en-US or en-GB as your default language (but you can keep en-NZ as a secondary language) A common problem is that the default language is not available as an offline voice. Note that this must be one of the 'Offline Languages' you downloaded and installed first. Go back to 'Language & Input', and select the same languages again.Go back to 'Google Voice Typing', and select the languages you want to use under 'Languages'. Note: if your preferred language does not have an offline voice available under Google Voice Typing, you must choose a language that does and make it your default language.
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