Word Dictate - keeps typing 'what'

Anonymous
2020-01-23T08:42:55+00:00

Hi, I just started using the dictate function in Word and its great. However when I pause for too long it types 'What' and if i'm not careful i miss it and it stays in my text. I have tried several times and there is no background noise and I am not breathing heavy or saying anything? It will often type 'what' also before the dictate function times out and turns off. 

edit - it is now also typing 'hello' and 'heehee'. I think its possessed!! 

The function commands such as hyphen, open parenthesis etc do not work either. comma, full stop do. Also is there a way to lengthen the time out function as I find it too short?

Any suggestions or anyone else having this problem?

Thankyou

H

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Anonymous
2020-06-04T17:16:46+00:00

Thanks @Rohn007 for pointing this out - I have just e-mailed Emily Tran to let her know. She is the person from Microsoft working to fix this.

When we were last in contact she hadn't been able to see the 'hello' problem in action. This might be why.

I think most of us would like to continue using the dictate function - it just needs a bit of perseverance to get there, and collaboration with Microsoft to help them.

Onwards and upwards!

A fix has been deployed to 100% of Dictation users - please let us know if you still see the issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-25T22:42:43+00:00

    The issue is still here.   Random "hellos" and occasionally also "have".  

    I'm noticing a significant Improvement in the dictation. Far fewer random insertions of words like hello and read. I would love to see greater ability to insert punctuation as you can with periods and colons.  It would also be fabulous to not have the first word you dictate start with an uppercase first letter when the dictation is mid-sentence. Thanks MS, the future is improving and I look forward to continued progress.

    Thank you for writing back to inform us that perhaps it's not completely gone, but has lessened in severity!

    Regarding punctuation, feel free to let us know which ones you want and how you would ideally like to say them. We are definitely adding more!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-23T11:26:26+00:00

    The issue is still here.   Random "hellos" and occasionally also "have".  

    I'm noticing a significant Improvement in the dictation. Far fewer random insertions of words like hello and read. I would love to see greater ability to insert punctuation as you can with periods and colons.  It would also be fabulous to not have the first word you dictate start with an uppercase first letter when the dictation is mid-sentence. Thanks MS, the future is improving and I look forward to continued progress.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-23T10:33:19+00:00

    The issue is still here.   Random "hellos" and occasionally also "have".

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T03:58:31+00:00

    Regretfully, the timer has shortened again. Plus, I got a message telling me Dictation needed a moment to catch up with me.

    We haven't done anything to the timer yet as a heads up

    That's interesting. I don't doubt what you are saying, but I'm guessing I got lucky while someone was doing some live testing. If whatever I experienced becomes permanent, a lot of people will be happy. Thanks for the update!

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