Microsoft Voice Access and Dragon Pro are powerful speech dictation tools that eliminate spelling errors. However, sometimes speech recognition systems misinterpret what you say and make grammatical mistakes. With Sensory Readable, you can now listen back to your dictated text to ensure it captured your words correctly.

Microsoft Voice Access can be used to dictate text into any application without requiring an internet connection. It is available in Windows 11, version 22H2 and later. The Sensory Readable toolbar allows you to launch Microsoft Voice Access by clicking the red microphone button.



Click the Microphone button on the Readable toolbar to launch Voice Access. If Voice Access has not been used on a PC before, it goes through a guided setup process. Read more about dictating with Microsoft Voice Access from the Microsoft website


Once Microsoft Voice Access is launched, start dictating as follows:


  • Click into the application you wish to dictate into and say, “Voice Access wake up”. Voice Access is now listening for you to start dictating. 
  • Dictate some text and it will be entered into your selected application. 
  • When you have finished dictating say, “Voice access sleep” or “Voice access turn off microphone”. 

Reviewing text dictated by Windows 11 Voice Access or Dragon Pro


To make sure Dragon Pro or Voice Access heard you correctly, there are two way you can listen to your dictated text. This will create confidence in using voice typing, and help ensure the dictated text is accurate and what you intended.


1.        Using any of the Readable reading methods detailed in Control Readable Speech section.

2.        You can turn on ‘Voice Echo’ in Readable > Settings > Speech > Voice Echo:



With this setting on, when you pause dictating between utterances, each utterance will be spoken back to you by Readable. 


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