Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Kevin here. Today, we're going to look at how you can type on your PC just by using your voice. And you can even command your PC, like launch the KevinCookieCompany.com. That's pretty cool. The technology has gotten so good. Let's check this out. We're going to start with Windows 11, and first you need to open up some type of text field that you can type into. I've gone with the most basic example of opening up notepad, but you could also open up, say a web browser with Gmail, and you can use this to compose an email message to launch the dictation tool. Press the windows key together with H, H as in hotel. The Kevin Cookie Company has the best cookies in the world. Have you tried their cookies? Stop listening. You could turn off dictation by saying, stop listening. You can also press windows H again, or you could come down here and click on this button. All in all, it did a very good job with the dictation here. It capitalized each letter of the Kevin Cookie Company. It also included punctuation. Here's a period and here it correctly identified that this was a question and it included a question mark here. If you go down to the settings gear here, there's the option to turn on automatic punctuation. I find that it's really convenient to turn this on. So I would recommend toggling this on. You can also use the tool for very basic commanding. I'll have it listen again. New paragraph. If not, you should order today. And with that command, it automatically inserted a new paragraph. To see all of the different commands available over here, click on the question mark icon to learn more. This opens up a website that tells you all about voice typing. If you scroll down just a little bit, there's a category for voice typing commands, and here you can say these various commands. For example, pause voice typing, and that'll stop or pause the voice typing. You could say, delete that, and that'll remove the last sentence that you entered, or you could even say, select that, and that'll select the sentence. You have a few different options here. Back within the voice typing tool, there's one more setting. That's extremely useful. I'll click on the settings gear. And at the very top, there's the option that says voice typing launcher. When you toggle this on and then you click out of your text field, you'll notice that the voice typing tool disappears. But if I click back into a text field here, it automatically launches the voice typing tool, and I simply click on this icon and that will resume the voice typing. Along with simply dictating text, you can also command your entire PC. Let's look at what I mean by that. On Windows 11, go down to your start menu and then search for a voice typing and click on the best match. This opens up the accessibility settings for speech. And right here, you'll see the option for voice access. Let's toggle this on. Then you can close this settings window. Now that we've turned on voice access, you'll see that there's this new bar on the top of the screen. Let's click on this icon to turn it on. Open edge, maximize window, KevinCookieCompany.com. Enter, close edge, open notepad. All of our cookies are made from only the best ingredients like high fructose corn syrup. The really neat thing is I can use this tool to command my PC. So let's say open or close applications, maximize a window, and you can also use it for dictation. Here, I had it enter in some text. To see all the different ways that you could command your PC, in the top right hand corner, click on the question mark icon, and here you can view all commands. And there are so many different commands available. You have all sorts of commands that let you interact with apps. You can also interact with controls. You could dictate text. You could select text. You could also edit text. So you have so many different options here. It's well worth looking at if you'd like to control your PC using your voice. You can also use dictation directly within the Microsoft Office apps. Like Word, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and you get some additional functionality. Within Microsoft Word, up on the home tab on the ribbon, go over to the voice category, and here there is the option for dictate. Here's a list of my favorite cookies, colon, bold favorite, start list, chocolate chip, new line, snickerdoodle, new line, oatmeal raisin, delete last sentence. I mean, honestly, oatmeal raisin, that's not my favorite. So let's make sure to remove that from the list. Here you can see that not only can you dictate text and have it write your text, but you could also tell it to say bold a certain word or to start a list. So you get quite a bit of richness here when you're trying to compose text. Just like we saw in all of the other experiences. If we go over to the dictate tool over here, you can click on the question icon, and this opens up help. This shows you all the different commands that you can use. You could say different punctuation. They have different editing controls. You could have it delete the last sentence, the last few words. You can have it apply formatting. You could also add comments. So here too, just like we saw in the other experiences, you have lots of different options, but this is more catered towards authoring a document. Let's say you don't have Windows 11, or maybe you don't have Microsoft Office. You can still take advantage of voice typing using Google Docs. Here I am within Google Docs, and you can navigate here by clicking on the link in the top right-hand corner or going to the link in the description down below. Just like with Windows and also the different Office apps, you can also use voice typing here. Up on the top menus, click on the tools menu and right down here, there's the option for voice typing. You can also press the shortcut key control shift and S. When you click on that, you'll see this new icon appear with a microphone. You simply click on that and it'll start listening. I hope I've now convinced you that the Kevin Cookie Company does indeed have the best cookies in the world. Once you're all done, you can simply click on that icon and it'll stop listening. And here too, this also has extremely high quality and it also includes punctuation. If you hover over this icon here in the bottom right-hand corner, you'll see this question mark icon. Let's click on that. This opens up help over on the right-hand side. And if we scroll down, you'll also see that you have all sorts of different commands here as well. You can select text. You can format your text using these different commands. So you'll find similar functionality to what you get in say Word, Outlook, and also Windows. All right. Well, hopefully you don't have to type as much anymore. In fact, you could leave a comment down below simply by dictating it. To watch more videos like this one, please consider subscribing and I'll see you in the next video.