How Windows 10 dictation works

Dictation within Windows has lived in the shadows for years. Finally, with Windows 10 and the Fall Creators Update, dictating text is almost as easy as talking to Siri, Cortana, or Google. Within Windows 10, you can turn on dictation with just a keystroke. I wrote this whole article with just my voice. Dictation has lived within Windows for years, though it's been confined to the Control Panel, where users had to set up and configure dictation capabilities manually before they could actually use it in the real world.