With both settings turned on, and while your headset is turned on, the device will always be listening to your voice input and will send your voice data to Microsoft cloud-based speech recognition technologies. Both device-based speech recognition and online speech recognition settings will be turned on. Turning on speech while setting up a HoloLens device or installing Windows Mixed Reality allows you to use your voice for commands, dictation, and app interactions. Additionally, in Windows 10, the Online speech recognition setting makes it possible to use dictation within Windows. Turning on the Online speech recognition setting lets apps use Microsoft cloud-based speech recognition. Microsoft provides both a device-based speech recognition feature and cloud-based (online) speech recognition technologies. To learn more about these features, read the following sections. That’s why we give you control over your privacy settings for online speech recognition and inking and typing personalization features in Windows.
