- Windows 11 has a new overview in the beta channel
- It improves the vocal dictation using the AI and provides support for Windows Studio effects to more webcams
- Downwards, the File Explorer reception panel obtains an addition that some may consider as a size
Windows 11 has a new preview version that refines the voice dictation in the operating system and allows you to use webcam tips based on the AI outside the main camera of your device – but these modifications are only for Copilot + PCS.
The new Windows 11 overview version in the beta channel (build 26120.5790) deploys these modifications and some other minor adjustments as detailed in a Microsoft blog article.
The new vocal access capacity is called “fluid dictation” and Microsoft claims that it does vocal dictation in Windows 11 both “smoother and more intelligent”.
This includes the correction of grammatical errors or punctuation automatically, and the so -called filling words are also deleted (such as “you know” or “like” and the typical additional words that you could inadvertently inadvertent while stopping to think when dictating the text).
The second major movement here is to extend the availability of Windows Studio effects from the integrated laptop of Copilot + from the device to other webcams. This means that you can use these effects fueled by AI on a connected USB webcam, or the second camera on your laptop, if it has an integrated in the cover (opposite).
In an interesting turn, this capacity takes place in co -pilot + PC with Intel processors first, then devices with Snapdragon (ARM) and AMD chips. Normally, the Snapdragon machines get first, but not here.
Microsoft also introduces new options when you fly over the files in the File Explorer home page, including a choice to open the file to its location, and also ask the Copilot on the file. You will need to be connected to a Microsoft account for this feature to work.
Analysis: greater flexibility for Copilot + PCS
Not everyone will want the COPILOT option to be added to the library of choice that appears when you fly over a file on the File Explorer home page – some will consider it as an additional size (and I am in this camp, I must admit).
However, there can be no arguments on the usefulness of being able to apply the effects of Windows Studio more than the main webcam. These are features fueled by AI such as the possibility of blurring the background, or of giving the impression that you establish visual contact with a participant in a video call (by looking directly in the camera, rather than on the screen).
Bringing AI to help improve the voice dictation should mean a little less in terms of manual correction for the text you have dictated, and I can see that it is very useful – assuming it is precise, and AI should help facilitate this.
For those who worry about the treatment of AI which has been written in terms of possible confidentiality problems, Microsoft clearly indicates that this feature is motivated by AI available (small language or SLM models), there is nothing to send to Microsoft servers in the cloud. In addition, any text field where passwords or similar are used have a deactivated vocal dictation. And more broadly, you can simply deactivate this ability if you don’t like sound.
It should be mentioned again that these two key features are reserved for Copilot + PCS, so we will not obtain them on normal Windows 11 computers.
