- Windows 11 has a new compilation preview on the Beta channel
- It offers new click functions for co -pilot+ PCs, including the integration of coach’s reading
- The search has also accumulated with AI, and access to voice also has a new useful addition.
The latest version of preview of Windows 11, has just arrived, the improved search functionality and some new impressive capabilities for accessibility, including the integration of Microsoft’s’ Reading Coach application on certain PC.
This is the Build 26120.3872 view on the Beta Channel, and some of the new additions are only for co -pilot+ PC, and specifically only for devices with Snapdragon chips (based on ARM).
So, first in this category it is the integration of the reading coach with click to do. To recapitulate these functionality pieces, click to do provides actions sensitive to the context that work with AI; This was presented as the partner’s feature to remember in Copilot+ PCs, and Reading Coach was available for free at the beginning of 2024.
The latter is an application that you can download from the Microsoft store to practice your reading and pronunciation skills, and now the reading coach can now be chosen directly from the click context menu to do, so you can work in any selected text. (You will need the installed training application to do this, of course).
It is also new to click to do (and copy+ PC) is a capacity to ‘read with immersive reader’ that is a focused reading mode designed for dyslexia and dysgraphia.
This allows users to adjust the size of the text and the separation, the source and the substantive theme to better adapt to their needs, as well as have an image dictionary option that Microsoft points out “provides visual representations of words unknown to an instant understanding.” You can also opt for the text to read aloud and divide into syllables if necessary.
To start, another characteristic ordered for co -pilot+ PCs, although only in the European economic area, is the ability to find photos saved in the cloud (OneDrive) through the search box in the Windows 11 taskbar 11. Once again, this is fed by AI, so you can use the search for natural language to find images in OneDrive (as photos of “Halloween costumes”. Both local photos (on the device) and cloud -based will be displayed in the search results of the taskbar.
All of the above are now being implemented in the tests to Co -Pilot+ PC with Snapdragon, but devices with CPU AMD and Intel will also be eventually covered.
A more notable introduction here, for all PCs this time, is that access to the voice now gives you the power to add your own words to your dictionary. So, if there is a word that the system is having difficulty collecting when it says, you can add a personalized and, lucky dictionary entry, the next time you use it during the dictation, access to the voice will correctly recognize the word.
There are a lot of other adjustments and refinements in this new version of previous view, all of which are covered in Microsoft’s blog post in the new Beta construction.
ANALYSIS: ESTERLINA LIBRA PROGRESS
It is good to see Microsoft’s continuous efforts to improve Windows 11 in terms of accessibility and learning, even if some of the central presentations here will not be carried out to most people, since they will not have a co -pilot+ PC. What is also clear is that Microsoft is clearly giving devices with the priority of Snapdragon processors continuously, and that is fine, as long as the same powers come to all co -pilot+ PC eventually (what they are doing so far, and there is no reason why they should not).
The addition of voice access is very useful, although I am surprised that it has taken both Microsoft to implement it. He was previously a heavy user of the Nuance Voice Recognition tool (Dragon) (my RSI has been cured for a long time, thanks in part to take a break from writing using this software) and offered this functionality. As Windows 11’s voice access is essentially based on the same technology: Microsoft bought Nuance in 2021, it takes time to incorporate what I felt was an important feature.
However, as always, better late than ever, and certainly I can’t complain that access to voice is free, or at least free in terms of being included with Windows 11.
