Windows 11 has a surprisingly powerful and versatile Voice Access utility built in that makes it easy to control your PC using your voice. Here's how to get started with Windows 11 Voice Access!

Activate Speech Recognition To use Speech Recognition, open Control Panel on Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 and double-click Speech Recognition.

Otherwise, choose the second option to "Use voice activation mode" to put speech recognition to sleep when you're done with it and "Start listening" to wake it up. Click Next.

Voice commands aren't just for smartphone users; they're for PC users, too. We'll show you how to use speech recognition so you can launch programs, dictate text, scroll Web pages, and more, all ...

Your Apple HomePod can be a useful device for managing your smart home, but it needs to recognize everyone's voice to avoid confusion. Here's how to do that.

What initially felt like a gimmick—the ability to tell your car, phone, or TV what to do—has become quite useful. And it will only get better. For some people, voice recognition is too weird ...

The company is exploring ways to improve voice-recognition technology for people who have impaired speech.

Mark Geremia of Nuance Communications and Chief Joseph Solomon of the Methuen, Mass. Police Department explain how police officers use tools like voice recognition to help with everything from ...

Voice recognition technology now reliably sits on our phones, smart speakers and other devices. And our use of this capability is multiplying. In this article, let’s consider how this now common ...

"People are using speech recognition in the car, while walking down the street with a smartphone in their hand, when they're in a cafe." Speech recognition research is hardly new at Microsoft.

Sound Recognition is an iPhone feature that can help users who are disabled, but it can also be used to create custom notifications based on sounds.