Question for Microsoft - What’s the point in having powerful and long-standing features in Word, if Microsoft itself won’t use them? Add section to document ‘Speaker 1 text’ etc.).Īs Microsoft has done it, customers must manually go through the document reformatting it. ‘Transcript’ or ‘Spoken’), even if the initial style settings are the same as Normal? Ideally, each speakers words should be in a separate style (e.g. ‘Speaker Name’).Īt the least, transcribed words should have a separate style (e.g. Surely it would be better to use Heading 2 for speakers names? Then users could easily reformat the naming either by changing the look of Heading 2 or Replacing that style with another (e.g. It’s a shortsighted decision that makes it unnecessarily difficult to reformat the transcript. There’s nothing to separate speakers names from the spoken words. The ‘Audio file’ and ‘Transcript’ lines use Heading 1 style. The transcribed text appears in the Transcribe pane and might seem simple but there’s a lot of useful features hiding here. The entire recording is saved in your OneDrive /Transcribed Files folder. The transcription can be edited in the Transcribe pane. Then it’s uploaded and converted to text once the recording is over.ĭifferent speakers are noted under separate headings. Transcribe recording records your speech or meeting first. What you say isn’t recorded for later playback. Voice commands like ‘New Paragraph’ work in Dictate. There’s no pause option (though we wish there was). Word and phrases appear in the document moments after you speak.ĭifferent speakers aren’t marked in any way. Dictateĭictate is live real-time conversion of text of what you say. They are similar but there’s important differences. Difference between Dictate and Transcribe recordingĪt first, Dictate and Transcribe recording might seem the same. When you’re finished choose ‘Save and transcribe now’ to upload and convert the recording into text.

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