Microsoft Word has a hidden transcription tool – here’s where to find it

Transcribing audio is an incredibly annoying and time-consuming task. Whether it's interviews or work chats, audio that you need to translate, or classes that you've attended, turning spoken words into text is so tedious. That's where we can benefit from modern software that can understand spoken language and turn it into text. Microsoft is one of the companies that is working on such technology, and it so happens that Microsoft Word has a built-in transcription tool that most people are completely unaware of.

That should easily be one of the top features Microsoft advertises for Word and its Microsoft 365 suite. However, the transcription tool isn't built into the desktop apps you're already running on your Mac, PC, and mobile devices. Instead, it's hidden inside the online version of Microsoft Word.

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