Fact · Dictation software
Microsoft says voice clips will occasionally be sampled and listened to for training its speech recognition models.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“will occasionally be sampled and listened to for the purposes of improving our speech recognition technology and training our speech recognition models”
How does Microsoft protect my privacy while improving its speech recognition technology?, Microsoft, Microsoft Support, n.d., How does Microsoft protect my privacy while improving its speech recognition technology?.
Open the original- What it measures
- Microsoft's page on voice data for its speech products. The voice typing privacy section links to it for more information on voice clips.
- What it does not show
- The sentence covers voice clips that a person chooses to contribute. The page says contributing them is optional, so voice typing works without it.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Windows voice typing: training: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Windows voice typing
- Feature
- Recordings can train the maker's models
- Detail
- Only if you contribute voice clips
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this