How to dictate in Microsoft Word with AI cleanup on Windows

You can dictate into Microsoft Word with an AI dictation app that runs alongside Word: hold a hotkey, speak, release, and the text is pasted at the cursor already cleaned up — no fillers, correct punctuation, proper paragraphs. Word's built-in Dictate transcribes word for word; an AI layer is what turns speech into a finished text.

Why Word's built-in Dictate is not enough

Word (Microsoft 365) has a Dictate button that turns speech into text in real time. It is fine for short notes, but it writes exactly what you say: hesitations, repeated words, missing commas, and you have to say "period" and "new line" out loud. For a letter, a report or a contract you end up editing almost every sentence.

AI dictation adds a second step: after transcription, a language model rewrites the raw text into what you meant to write. That step is what removes "uhm", fixes punctuation, capitalizes names and keeps the structure.

Setting up AI dictation for Word (2 minutes)

1. Download Loquil for Windows and sign in (the free plan needs no card).
2. Choose your hotkey: Shift+Win by default, or any combination you like.
3. Open Word, click where you want the text, hold the hotkey and speak naturally — no dictated punctuation.
4. Release the keys: the cleaned text is pasted at the cursor, in Word's own formatting.

Nothing changes in Word itself: no add-in, no ribbon button. Loquil works the same way in Outlook, Excel, the browser and any other window.

Tips for long documents

• Dictate paragraph by paragraph: release the hotkey at natural pauses so each block is pasted where you are.
• Use the Rewrite mode for a more polished register, Summarize for meeting notes.
• Add recurring names and terms to the personal dictionary so they are spelled the same every time.
• Dictate in your language and choose "Write in: English" (or any of 35+ languages) when the document must be in another language.

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Updated: 2026-08-16

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