Voice commands are only in Word for the web and mobile initially, but will be in desktop Word on Windows and Mac before the end of 2020 for Microsoft 365 subscribers. As well as just dictating text, you can now use Voice Commands in Word for the web to format text, create lists and add comments to a document you're reviewing leaving comments is particularly convenient if you're doing it on a tablet rather than a laptop because you don't have to pull out a keyboard. There are also new options for the Dictate option that's already in Word, which doesn't need a Microsoft 365 subscription, just for you to be signed in with a Microsoft account. How many minutes of recording that file size covers varies with the file format and codec you use if you're recording in MP3 on an iPhone, 200MB will store more than three hours of speech.Īccording to Microsoft, uploading and transcribing an audio file will currently take about the same time as the file length, but that will get faster in the future our test of a 51-minute MP3 took slightly less than 50 minutes. There's no limit to the numbers of meetings and conversations you can record and transcribe live, but you can only upload 300 minutes (5 hours) of audio a month and audio files can't be more than 200MB (although that will increase).
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If you already have a recording (in WAV, MP3, MP4 or M4A), you can upload that inside a Word document to have it transcribed.
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SEE: How to add hyperlinks to a Word document (TechRepublic)Īll Office users can now get transcriptions using that same backend with the new Transcribe feature in Word, which turns what's said in a meeting or conversation into a transcript that you can use as a reference while writing a document. Developers can use the Azure Cognitive Services APIs to create their own transcription app (Azure CTO Mark Russinovich created a smartphone app to record his meetings a few years ago). There are already a number of options, from the meeting transcription option inside Teams (which only works for the organisation hosting the meeting, but not for any external guests) to services like Otter that record in a browser or on your smartphone and transcribe in the cloud.
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