The new Windows 11 updates never cease to surprise us. For example, the latest build 26052 (available now in the development channel and also in Canary), comes loaded with interesting features. One of them allows us to do Let Windows 11 play text using our own voice.
This function called "Speak for me" (Speak for Me in the original English) allows the user, as the name suggests, to teach the operating system to speak using their own personal voice. It should be noted that this is a function already implemented by Apple not long ago. Now it also comes to Windows.
Yes, as you have probably already assumed, this is one of the functions in which the Artificial Intelligence. This is the technology that will be used to create a new artificial voice based on the features of our own voice.
How Does It Work?
We still don't know much about how this feature works in detail, although according to what is explained in the Windows Settings application, it will allow us «create our own voice avatar or keep our own voice». The idea is to be able to use it later in both physical and online meetings.
Following the path marked by other solutions designed to pass text to voice, We just have to write something and Windows 11 will express it in audio using our own synthesized voice, word by word. This is perhaps the most interesting thing about the feature: we are not going to hear one of those cold, randomly generated voices of a lifeless robot, but our own voice. Amazing.
As with other accessibility functions, "Speak for me" also has a direct access or shortcut. Using the key combination Win + Ctrl + T The function will be activated automatically.
How to access the “Speak for me” feature in Windows 11
anyone you want Try the new “Speak for me” feature in Windows 11 You can do it without problems by updating your OS to build 26052. This is a good method to do it right:
- First of all, you have to download ViveTool from GitHubby unzip your files into a folder.
- Then we have to start the symbol of the system as administrators.
- Next, we navigate to the folder containing the ViveTool files with the CD command.
- Then we write vivetool /enable /id:47123936 and press the Enter button.
- Finally, we restart our PC so that the function becomes accessible.
Once this is done, you just have to start the "Settings" application, click on the "Accessibility" tab and, within it, select "Speak for me." That easy.
But when will "Speak for me" be available in Windows 11 without having to force any update? According to the information that Microsoft has leaked about this topic, This feature is expected to be part of the Windows 11 24H2 update, which, if there is no change in plans in the coming months, will appear at some point during the second half of 2024, along with other improvements that we mention in the next section.
This is, for now, all that is known for sure about this function. It is to be expected that as time goes by, new details will appear revealed by users who have already had the opportunity to test its advantages. We will remain attentive to update this information.
More Windows 11 news that comes from the hand of AI
"Speak for me" is just one of the many new things that the Artificial intelligence (In the case of Windows, we talk about Copilot) will improve the user experience with Windows 11. It may be the most striking, although not the only one. These are some of them, all innovative and highly anticipated:
- super resolution, a cool feature that will use AI to improve the frame rate and image quality of games.
- Depth Effects, also referring to the processing of images. This will be a customization layer that, always with the help of AI, will be able to convert a static image into a moving wallpaper.
- Timeline, a tool with which you can go back in time through applications and websites.
- Improved Windows Search. Now, it will be possible to search for files, settings and applications using natural language. Copilot will recognize the content based on how it is registered on the clipboard, which will make it easier to perform different actions, both for texts and images.
Without a doubt, a lot of changes that bring numerous advantages. And this is just the beginning. The truth is that, at this time, even the most skeptical already recognize that AI is going to be a real revolution in many areas. Most likely, Windows will never be what it was, but what it will be in the future will leave us amazed.