- Windows 11 has a new preview on the beta channel
- Improves the voice dictation using AI and provides support for the effects of Windows Studio to more web cameras
- On the negative side, File Explorer’s start panel is obtaining an addition that some could consider as a disorder
Windows 11 has a new preview that refines the voice dictation in the operating system and allows webcars based on AIs to be used outside the main camera of their device, but these changes are only for co -pilot+ PCs.
The new previous version of Windows 11 on the Beta Canal (Build 26120.5790) implements these changes and some other minor adjustments as detailed in a Microsoft blog post.
The new capacity for access to voice is called ‘Fluid dictation’ and Microsoft states that it makes a voice dictation in Windows 11 both “softer and smarter.”
That includes correcting grammatical or scoring errors automatically, and the so -called filling words are also eliminated (such as ‘you know’ or ‘similar to’ and the typical additional words that can be inserted inadvertently while stopping to think about thinking about the text).
The second important movement here is to expand the availability of the effects of Windows Studio of the portable chamber of the Copilot+ device of the device to other web cameras. This means that you can use those effects with AI on a connected USB webcam, or the second camera of your laptop, if you have one integrated into the lid (out).
In an interesting turn, this ability is being implemented to co -pilot+ PC with Intel CPU first, and then devices with Snapdragon (ARM) and AMD chips. Normally, Snapdragon Machines gets everything first, but it is not here.
Microsoft is also entering new options for when you pass the files on the starting of the file explorer, including the option to open the file in its location, and also to ask Co -ylot about the file. It must be registered in a Microsoft account for this functionality to work.
ANALYSIS: More flexibility for co -driver+ pcs
Not everyone will want to request that the Copilot option be added to the options library that appears when you move on a file on the starting of the file explorer; Some will consider this as an additional disorder (and I am in that camp, I must admit).
However, there can be no argument about the usefulness of being able to apply the effects of Windows Studio to more than the main webcam. These are characteristics with AI, such as the ability to blur the background, or make it seem to make visual contact with a video call participant (looking directly at the camera, instead of on the screen).
Bringing to help improve voice dictation should mean a little less in the manual correction form for the text it has dictated, and I can see that it is very useful, assuming it is precise, and AI should help facilitate that.
For those concerned with AI processing, which has been written in terms of possible privacy concerns, Microsoft makes it clear that this feature is driven by AI on the device (small language models or SLM), so nothing is sent to Microsoft servers in the cloud. In addition, any text field where passwords or similar are used have a disabled voice dictation. And in general, you can simply disable this capacity if you don’t like your sound.
It is worth mentioning again that both key features are only for Copilot+ PCs, so we will not get them in normal Windows 11 computers.
