Fact · Languages and accents
Microsoft says the preview languages in Dictate for Word may have lower accuracy and limited punctuation support than the main languages.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Preview Languages may have lower accuracy or limited punctuation support.”
Dictate your documents in Word, Microsoft, 2026, Spoken languages supported section, footnote to the preview list.
Open the original- What it measures
- The preview list includes languages such as Arabic (Egypt), Bulgarian and Croatian. Microsoft marks these with an asterisk and this note, separate from the main list.
- What it does not show
- The note gives no accuracy figures, so it does not say how much lower accuracy is. Test a preview language on your own speech before you depend on it.