You can add text-to-speech voices to Windows 10 through your PC's Settings app to read text aloud in different languages and tones.

You can talk to Windows using the built-in speech recognition or text dictation features.

Or dictate text on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or later. After teaching Windows to understand the sound of your voice, you can then talk to the OS to get it to respond to your commands.

Or dictate text on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or later. After teaching Windows to understand the sound of your voice, you can then talk to the OS to get it to respond to your commands.

Speech Central: Text to Speech and MP3 is a feature-rich, text-to-speech Windows 10 app that lets you listen to web pages, RSS feeds, word documents, books and emails.

Speech-to-text may be built into Windows, but it’s not set up. Here’s how to get started with speech-to-text and tips for getting the best results.

The speech-recognition feature can be especially helpful for people with disabilities who can't use the keyboard or mouse. But it's available to anyone who'd like to try talking to Windows instead.

Activating speech recognition in Windows 10 requires a deep dive into configuration settings.

Learn how to fix Speech to Text Error 0x80049dd3 by re-enabling speech recognition, checking microphone settings, creating a new user account, etc.