Outlook Speed Up Emailing by Using Voice Commands and Dictation

Posted on: 09/21/2021

The Dictate feature in Microsoft is great. Outlook has a new feature with Dictate. You can now dictate the subject, add people to the To, CC, and BCC line, and at mention people. Several commands you can use are "add [Name] to email", "add [Name] to bcc", and "send email".

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0:00 Intro to email voice commands
0:28 Dictate in body of email
1:05 Dictate CC in email
1:23 Dictate subject line in Outlook
1:54 Send email with Dictate

Turn on Dictate in Outlook

Start a new email.
Click Dictate on the Message tab..
Start speaking.

Use Dictate in Outlook — Dictate in Outlook

Outlook Dictate Commands

add [name] to email
add [name] to cc line
add [name] to bcc line / “bcc [name]
change the subject line to [new subject]
send email” (you will see a confirmation dialog, then say “Yes"

Availability of Voice Commands for TO, CC, BCC, and Send email:

For Windows: Version 2107 (Build 14228.20044) or later
For Mac: Version 16.52 (Build 21072100) or later

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