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Dictation Toolbar
Good morning! This is a follow up on the case you opened about disabling the dictation toolbar. Upon reaching out to our senior analysts and engineering team, the feature will only be enabled on Word and Outlook if you have setup the Speech Recognition for Windows. Once you have enabled this though, there's no option to disable it again. If you do not want to see the toolbar, you may need to create a new Windows profile on the current device where Speech is not setup so that the pop up will not show whenever you click on the Dictation button in the ribbon. Since this feature is currently built-in directly to Word and Outlook, you can submit your feedback to add a feature to disable the toolbar to pop up by clicking on Help > Feedback. From there, you can either choose I have a suggestion or I don't like something to submit this directly to our developer team.
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.
- 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.
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.
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?
