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(Continued from page 7) Echo, and Cortana for Windows. Microsoft Of-
fice and Windows 10 recently have added or up-
3) On a more fun note, I’ve been sharing a
website called www.showmystreet.com. graded speech features that provide both text to
When you go to the site, you get a box speech and speech to text. Speak is a new fea-
where you can type in an address. It’s a ture that helps you proofread what you have
simple interface that lets you display al- typed by listening to the computer read it aloud.
most all locations. Just start typing the
location’s address and the background
Google Map is updated in real-time. Like
any other regular Google Map, you can
drag the map, zoom in/out, and select the
following views: map, satellite, hybrid,
and terrain. Wherever available, Show For example, if I’m typing a Word doc-
My Street will automatically display the ument and want to see if my wording is smooth
Google Street View of the address. Type and accurate, I can use “Speak” to hear how it
the address one character at a time and
watch the location that it displays. It’s sounds. The Speak feature is also found in other
amazing. The views can be directly Microsoft apps - Outlook, PowerPoint, and One-
shared on Twitter and Facebook. You Note.
To use ‘Speak,’ click anywhere in a document.
Then click the Review tab on the
ribbon. In the
Speech group, click ‘Read Aloud,’ which opens
an audio control bar. Click the right-pointing sin-
gle arrow, then sit back and listen. You can
Use Speech to Control choose a male or female voice by clicking the
setting icon which resembles a person on the
Your PC and Compose audio bar.
Text
Windows Speech Recognition (WSR):
nd
By Nancy DeMarte, 2 Vice President, Sara- Windows has had a speech recognition feature
sota Technology Users Group, FL for several years. This tool lets a user dictate
into a microphone without the use of a keyboard
October 2017 issue, STUG Monitor or mouse and have his or her speech translated
www.spcug.org into text. It can be used to compose articles,
ndemarte (at) Verizon.net write letters or emails, fill out forms, or complete
other writing tasks. You can also use WSR to
Speak:
perform the basic functions of a computer, like
Many modern devices have digital voice per- opening an app, selecting a word, showing a list
sonalities that can help you find things or com- of commands, and adding punctuation. Original-
plete tasks. Some of these even have names, ly, it was difficult to set up, but the current
like Siri for Apple devices, Alexa for Amazon
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