{"id":4156,"date":"2025-05-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:35:14","slug":"digitip-65-speak-it-aloud-with-microsoft-word-dictate-%f0%9f%97%a3%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/2025\/05\/27\/digitip-65-speak-it-aloud-with-microsoft-word-dictate-%f0%9f%97%a3%ef%b8%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiTip 65: Speak it aloud with Microsoft Word Dictate\u00a0\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3186\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2024\/07\/digitips-banner_64471854.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3556\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word\u2019s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1890\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-03-120735.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4157\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e3f4ff\">To follow our DigiTips,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog<\/a>. Or alternatively, you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/category\/digitips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bookmark this webpage<\/a>, where a new DigiTip will be added each week!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word\u2019s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you!\u00a0 To follow our DigiTips,\u00a0subscribe to our Digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,402,412],"tags":[215,482,464,329,470],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitips","category-microsoft-support","category-microsoft-word-en","tag-tipiaudigipa-digitipsau-en","tag-accessibility","tag-applications","tag-office365-en","tag-shortcuts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4158,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}