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This feature is available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and in the Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office XP.
You can use speech recognition to dictate text into any Office program. You can also select menu, toolbar, dialog box (U.S. English only), and task pane (U.S. English only) items by using your voice.
To use speech recognition after you install it, click buttons on the Language bar to switch between speech recognition's two modes — Dictation mode and Voice Command mode.
Click the examples below to see how to use speech recognition.
In this example Dictation mode is used in Microsoft Word. Voice Command is also used so that you can see how to switch between Dictation mode and Voice Command mode. Click Start in the demo window.