In this short microlearning video, Randy Dean walks viewers through the Dictate feature built into Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word. He opens a new email, places the cursor, and activates the Dictate button, speaking sentences that the software transcribes. Randy highlights the tool’s surprising accuracy, its handling of capitalization, punctuation, and automatic correction, and notes that it works equally well in Word. He emphasizes the potential productivity gains, suggesting it could reduce repetitive typing and even help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Randy also mentions that a reliable high‑speed internet connection is essential for optimal performance. The video concludes with a call to action: viewers are encouraged to try the feature, visit Randy’s website, subscribe to the channel, and request a free productivity PDF covering Outlook, Gmail, Google Workspace, and mobile tips.
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Hi everybody. Hey, can you give me one second please? My Microsoft. Let's open a new email. And inside the email, let's put my cursor right here and come up and hit this button right here. So, comma, have you actually tried the dictate button in Microsoft Outlook yet? Question mark. It is actually quite accurate. Dash. Surprisingly so!
Exclamation point. New paragraph.
I hope that you learn to try it, comma, because it could perhaps save you from carpal tunnel, period. New paragraph. As you can see, comma, it is also quite adept at both capitalization and punctuation, period. And it even does automatic correction, period. Now, comma, let's see if it also works in Microsoft Word, period.
And as you see, it's right there too.
So, comma, does it work in Microsoft Word? Question mark. Certainly seems to work just fine in Microsoft Word. Period.
New paragraph. This changes everything.
Period. Give it a try. Period. Might save you quite a bit of time and make your writing that much easier. Period.
And let's finish this.
All right, I hope you had some fun with that. Uh, I am just shocked by how many people have not utilized this tool yet, uh, and I'm using it quite a bit more frequently for both my regular writing, uh, activities as well as composing emails. Give it a try, it's right there. I do think it's going to require high-speed internet because I think the internet is really critical for it to have the data transfer necessary to do it well. You may have noticed that when I said "dash," it didn't work for that, but it got almost everything else and nailed it. So give it a try. Hope you had fun. Learn more about me and my programs at randaldean.com. If you like this video, give it a like, uh, maybe consider subscribing to the channel. Write in a comment or two. And if you want to get my productivity PDF tip sheets with a whole bunch of tips on Outlook, email, Google Suite, Google Workspace now, Gmail, and smartphones, send me an email, randy@randaldean.com. Put YouTube PDF in the subject line. Thanks.