As a kid, I was enchanted by the idea of a computer that could type for you ... associate them with 16 different preprogrammed words. By the end of the 1980s, voice-dictation models could process ...

The key is a built-in feature known as dictation. But before you can take advantage of dictation, you'll have to enable it. After that, it works similarly as any voice-to-text feature, any you may ...