Set up voice access

“To complete the initial set up voice access in Windows, you need an internet connection.” (Introduction)

“Voice access is currently available in the following languages and dialects: English–US, English–UK, English–India, English–New Zealand, English–Canada, English–Australia, Spanish–Spain, Spanish–Mexico, German–Germany, French–France, French–Canada, Simplified Chinese–China, Traditional Chinses–Taiwan, Japanese, and Italian.” (Download language files)

“Start voice access after you sign into your PC” (Launch voice access)

“Start voice access before you sign in to your PC” (Launch voice access)

“automatically launch voice access every time you start your computer” (Launch voice access)

“voice access begins downloading the required language files for the selected language to be used by on-device speech recognition. You'll need an internet connection to complete this step.” (Download language files)

“You can launch voice access from Settings or by using Windows search.” (Launch voice access)

“Use of the microphone by voice access is controlled by your privacy settings.” (Note at the end of the setup steps, before the See also links)

“In the Start menu, select Settings Accessibility Speech” (Launch voice access, Start voice access from Settings)

“You can switch to a different language at any time from Voice access settings Languages” (Language download, setup)

“If you display language isn’t supported, you can still select from the list of supported languages in voice access and use it.” (Welcome screen, setup)