Windows 11 Voice access

Windows 11 Voice access now gives you compete control over your Windows 11, time to give this beauty the commands you’ve always wanted to deliver, come to me baby.

Windows 11 is getting a new “Voice Access” feature to control the operating system using your voice and a microphone.

While Microsoft has already supported dictation via a microphone, the ability to use your voice to execute commands in Windows has been limited to specific applications.

In the Windows 11 preview build 22518 released today, users can now use the Voice Access feature to launch or close applications, switch to the Desktop, minimize and maximize windows, switch applications, select items, scroll, edit text, and more.

At this time, Voice Access is only supported with the English-U.S. language, and the display language needs to be configured to English-U.S. for the feature to work correctly.

To launch Voice Access, users running the latest Windows 11 preview build can go into Settings > Accessibility > Speech page and enable the feature.

Once enabled, Windows 11 will prompt the user to download a language pack and offers an interactive guide explaining how to use the feature.

The Voice Access feature supports over 80 spoken commands and also allows Windows 11 users to dictate and edit documents directly through their microphone.

A complete list of the spoken commands that can be used with Voice Access can be found on this page.