Microsoft Announces Voice Access Improvements in Windows 11

Microsoft’s latest preview build for Windows 11 insiders includes welcome voice access improvements that make this feature easier to use, especially with a touch keyboard. This is because the company has added numbered tear drops over all keys of the touch keyboard, therefore allowing users to perform a series of operations easier. For example, you can now turn to the touch keyboard for things like spelling words, entering numbers, punctuation marks and symbols, as well as emoji. To show and hide the touch keyboard it’s enough to just say “show keyboard” or “hide keyboard,” while the typing thing is possible with a command like “click number.” For the time being, however, the commands that are available for voice access with a touch keyboard are still limited. For example, in addition to the ones mentioned above, users can only use voice access on and off commands, such as “turn off voice access.” Still in the works The new voice access feature...