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title: Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC – Microsoft Support
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# Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC – Microsoft Support

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With voice typing, you can enter text on your PC by speaking. Voice typing uses online speech recognition, which is powered by Azure Speech services.

How to start voice typing

To use voice typing, you'll need to be connected to the internet, have a working microphone, and have your cursor in a text box.

Once you turn on voice typing, it will start listening automatically. Wait for the "Listening..." alert before you start speaking.

| **Action** | **Do this** |
| --- | --- |
| Turn on voice typing | Press **Windows logo key **+ **H **on a hardware keyboardPress the **microphone key **next to the Spacebar on the touch keyboard |
| To stop voice typing | Say a voice typing command like "Stop listening"Press the microphone button on the voice typing menu |

**Note: **Press **Windows logo key **+ **Alt **+ **H **to navigate through the voice typing menu with your keyboard. 

Install a voice typing language

You can use a voice typing language that's different than the one you've chosen for Windows. Here's how:

1. Select **Start **> **Settings **> **Time & language **> **Language & region**.
2. Find **Preferred languages **in the list and select **Add a language**.
3. Search for the language you'd like to install, then select **Next**.
4. Select **Next **or install any optional language features you'd like to use. These features, including speech recognition, aren't required for voice typing to work.

To see this feature's supported languages, see the [list in this article.](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-typing-to-talk-instead-of-type-on-your-pc-fec94565-c4bd-329d-e59a-af033fa5689f#bkmk_supportedlanguages)

Switch voice typing languages

To switch voice typing languages, you'll need to change the input language you use. Here's how:

- Select the language switcher in the corner of your taskbar
- Press **Windows logo key **+ **Spacebar **on a hardware keyboard
- Press the language switcher in the bottom right of the touch keyboard

Supported languages

hese languages support voice typing in Windows 11:

- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR)
- Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch (Netherlands)
- English (Australia)
- English (Canada)
- English (India)
- English (New Zealand)
- English (United Kingdom)
- English (United States)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Irish
- Italian (Italy)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian (Romania)
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Swedish (Sweden)
- Tamil (India)
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese

Voice typing commands

Use voice typing commands to quickly edit text by saying things like "delete that" or "select that".

The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language

| oice typing command | What you can say |
| --- | --- |
| Stop or pause voice typing | Pause voice typing |
| Pause dictation |  |
| Stop voice typing |  |
| Stop dictation |  |
| Stop listening |  |
| Stop dictating |  |
| Stop voice mode |  |
| Pause voice mode |  |
| Delete last spoken word or phrase | Delete that |
| Erase that |  |
| Ignore that |  |
| Select last spoken word or phrase | Select that |

**Note: **If a word or phrase is selected, speaking any of the “delete that” commands will remove it.

Punctuation commands

Use voice typing commands to insert punctuation marks.

The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language.

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Use voice typing commands to insert punctuation marks.

The following list tells you what you can say. To view supported commands for other languages, change the dropdown to your desired language.

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