Anyone else experiencing problems with Voice Access after last week's update?

This is not a reported problem in the recent update.

Open the Settings App.

Go to Windows Update - Update History,

What is the KB number of the latest updates installed on your PC.

Hi Craig

Yes, this "working on it" freeze getting stuck has been reported by others after recent updates, so you're not alone here. A few things worth trying first before escalating:

Check Settings > Windows Update for any pending Voice Access or Windows 11 updates - Microsoft has been pushing incremental fixes for accessibility features, so there may already be a patch for this. Also worth restarting the Voice Access service itself rather than the whole app: turn it off and on from the Accessibility settings page (Settings > Accessibility > Speech > Voice access) rather than just closing the floating bar.

If it's still hanging afterward, the best way to actually get this in front of Microsoft (rather than just the community here) is through the Feedback Hub - open it, go to Accessibility as the category, and search first to see if others already logged the same "working on it" freeze so you can upvote it instead of duplicating. If nothing matches, submit a new report with the recreate steps you gave here (classic Outlook, dictating a sentence, freeze) and attach a screen recording if you can, since that gets picked up by the product team directly and carries more weight than a community post.