Fact · Dictation on Windows
11language variants
Microsoft says Windows Speech Recognition is available only in English (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India and Australia), French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Simplified and Traditional Chinese) and Spanish, 11 variants in all.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech Recognition is available only for the following languages: English (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Australia), French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional), and Spanish.”
Windows Speech Recognition commands, Microsoft, Microsoft Support, 2026, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- Windows Speech Recognition is the legacy voice control and dictation tool that Voice Access replaced in Windows 11. The count treats each English variant and each Chinese script as one variant.
- What it does not show
- Describes a deprecated tool that remains on older Windows versions.