Fact · Dictation on Windows
9months
Microsoft's dates put nine months between the December 2023 deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition and the September 2024 replacement by Voice Access.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- What it measures
- Microsoft gives only months for both dates, so the count is in whole months.
- How it is calculated
- December 2023 to September 2024 is 9 months.
- What it does not show
- The replacement date is for Windows 11 version 22H2 and later. Older versions kept the tool.
Calculated from
- Microsoft's list of deprecated Windows features dates the deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition, and its replacement by Voice Access, to December 2023.
- Microsoft says Voice Access replaced Windows Speech Recognition in Windows 11 version 22H2 and later in September 2024, and that Speech Recognition remains available in older versions of Windows.