In Windows 7, 8.1, or 10, open Control Panel and double-click Speech Recognition. The Speech Recognition window pops up with links to dive into the feature. Click on the first link to "Start ...

At the Speech Recognition window in Control Panel, click on the link for "Advanced speech options" to tweak the Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech features.

Speech-to-text used to be regarded as very niche, specifically just used for busy people who needed dictation software, or ...

Text-to-speech is commonly used as an accessibility feature to help people who have trouble reading on-screen text.