Fact · Dictation on Windows
In June 2026 heise reported that the public preview of Microsoft's new local speech recognition API supports only English at first.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“However, the public preview initially only supports the English language.”
Local speech recognition for Windows – without cloud, Moritz Förster, heise online (iX Magazin), 2026, Section 'New API for speech recognition'.
Open the original- What it measures
- The sentence follows the report's description of the API's uses, which include dictation functions, automatic subtitles and transcription tools.
- What it does not show
- Describes the preview at the time of the report. The article says other languages and countries were announced for later, so the language list will have changed by the time you read this.