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Copper Contributor

Mar 14, 2021

Dictation Toolbar

I use Microsoft dictation all the time in word and outlook and recently the dictation toolbar started popping up and it gets in the way of my text. I can move it and close it but it is a nuisance, I ...

mthughes

Copper Contributor

Mar 26, 2021

TanEmb

Honestly, I don't ever recall setting up speech recognition, but magically my "profile" is there. This has got to be the most obnoxious "feature" ever! Even more so by the fact that they designed it in such a way as that it cannot be disabled or reverted back to the original.

TanEmb

Copper Contributor

Mar 26, 2021

Same here, I don't recall turning this on and if I did turn it on, how am I to know that this popup toolbar is going to appear and annoy me and there's no way to disable it. I fear that not enough people will report the problem, so it won't get dealt with.

PhilipRose
Copper Contributor
Apr 04, 2021
This is so annoying! It is unsolicited and unwanted and yet it is imposed on us without any option of removal! I find it difficult to believe that anyone thinks this is a good idea. The box is always in the way. ?It appears over the thing you are working on and you have to find space to park it.

If you ask me I would say that this is a product of the same arrogant mindset that led apple to impose an unwanted U2 album on its users.
Microsoft please fix this.
- rosingm
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 30, 2021
  It's absolutely insane, but Microsoft (Windows, not word) dictation works and then after a couple of uses starts responding “initializing…” and it won't work anymore. I've gotten Microsoft support and they get it to work again but only briefly (jumping through a million Hoops, including repairing windows and parentheses. Anyone?