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Try These Speech To Text Softwares For Free On Windows

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Speech to text is such an interesting feature that is very much helpful to those people who write novels, write academic transcriptions, office documents as they have to type a lot and that may sometimes take a lot of their time if they were not so proficient in typing, so, the speech to text softwares help them a lot by allowing them to just speak whatever they to wish to type and the softwares convert the speech into a text.

There are a lot many options for speech to text applications available for the Windows users, but putting aside the paid options, we will tell you about the best free speech to text softwares.

Free Speech To Text Softwares:

Google Docs Voice Typing:

To use this tool from Google, you will need a Chrome browser, a microphone and also an internet connection as it will only work with the internet. This tool offers the users the easiest way to use the speech to text feature. This tool works only in the Chrome browser and the users can use this feature in Google Docs, Google Slides. To use this you can simply connect the microphone to the computer and then open the document in Google docs or slides and then click on the tools and then select voice typing, then you will be able to see the microphone box which you can click when you are ready to speak. When done click on the microphone again.

Windows Speech Recognition:

This is another software recommendation from us if you are in search of a great speech to text tool. You need to head to Start>Control Panel> Speech Recognition and then click on setup microphone and then select the type of the microphone that you are using. Then it will ask you read a sentence to set up, just do it and click on next. Then before actually beginning your work, you can train your Pc to understand your voice by heading to Start>Control Panel>Speech Recognition and there click on Train Your Computer To Understand You Better. It will then present you some sentences to read one after the other and do them. Then you can simply turn the speech recognition feature by going to Start>Control Panel>Speech Recognition>Start Speech Recognition. It will then ask you to set up the method you would like to use to launch the app, set it up and you are done.

How to change the mouse cursor icon appearance in Windows

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The main important thing on the screen of your PC while you work, surf the web or do something is the cursor which represents your mouse movements on the screen. Have you ever felt bored of seeing the same routine cursor all the time? Don’t worry, there is actually a very simple process using which you can change your cursor icon, now come lets go through that

• Just type Change how the mouse pointer looks in the Search bar of the Windows and press enter
• You will see the search results with two options select the Change how the mouse pointer looks option and press enter to open it
• Now you will see the window open, click on the properties window
• Under the tab you will see customize section, where you need to select the mouse pointer that you wish to change, and then click on browse
• Then you can see a window with all the various cursor icons available on your PC
• Select one icon that wish to use as a replacement for the one you select earlier, and click on open
• Now, finally click on apply and then on Ok to save the changes
You can thus change the appearance of the various cursor icons you wish on your Windows PC with these simple steps.

 

Applications that help you find serial keys in Windows PCs

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You may know the drill of entering the serial keys and if you have paid for a subscription or purchased an application ever. The internet has evolved a lot these days that it has become very easy to track down any keys that you have paid for or purchased earlier.

If you ever lose the keys to the paid application or program, then you have to find them by yourself. There are a plenty of KeyFinder applications available on the internet that can help you in this regard. Let us have a look at a few such applications

Magical Jellybean KeyFinder

It is the standard key recovery tool. Using this application is pretty much simple, you just need to download and run it. Then it will automatically scan your Windows registry and finds product keys for various products like Microsoft Office, Windows and 300 different programs. Whereas its paid version allows recovery of up to 8000 programs.

Its best feature I the ability to save the keys as a text file. Just select File>Save As.

 LicenseCrawler

It has more features than the earlier tool. It allows the users to save the keys in different formats.

This tool also has network support which allows the users to find serial keys from the other computers on the network.  But this tool isn’t entirely free and you have to watch a text based ad.

 SterJo KeyFinder

This one is the last tool in our list, but definitely not the least. It scans for keys immediately after launching the tool. It offers the same kind of features like the first tool on this list. It gets regular updates which help to have a better interface.

So I hope these applications will be helpful and useful to you in case you need to find your Windows keys.

How to automatically lock your Windows computer when you are away from it

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It is very much important or even safe to lock your computer when you are not in front of it. As you may have a lot of personal and very important information, you can’t give a chance to anyone to play their tricks. With Windows 10 Microsoft added a Dynamic lock feature that works by pairing your phone to the PC using Bluetooth and will automatically lock the computer when you step away from it.

But don’t worry if you are still using the old operating systems of Microsoft like the Windows 7 or 8.1, then don’t worry, there is a software program to help you. A locked PC is a safe PC.

Go through the link below to get that software on your PC

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Bluelock.shtml

The application is called Bluelock which is a very simple tool that has been there for many years. For this, your system should have Bluetooth and you should have your phone always handy. After you download the application from the above link, just open it. Turn Bluetooth on on both your PC and Phone, then it will list your device in the Discovered Bluetooth Devices window. Double click on it to make your phone the lock to your PC. Adjust the time slider to your required time after which you would like to lock the PC. That means once you are away for that particular period of time, it will be locked.

So, do try this simple application to experience some safety and security.

How to Extend C Drive size in Windows Computer/Laptop?

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Running out the storage space is a major issue for any Windows desktop user. People create partitions with only 30-50 GB while installing Windows but later once we started to use more software the available free space is not sufficient.

So here I am going to explain how to resize the active primary partition on any computer or laptop. (the partition on which we installed Windows, usually it is C drive)

How to Extend C Drive in Windows Computer?

Windows operating system itself comes with a disk management tool named “Disk Management”. You can invoke it by typing “diskmgmt.msc” command in Start>Run dialog box. But the tool has limited flexibility to resize the disk partitions.

You need to use third-party software is to achieve more advanced functions on disk partitions. MiniTool Partition Wizard is one of the powerful disk partition application available on the internet. It provides all the required functions in the Free Home version. You can download MiniTool Partition Wizard from here.

Find some unallocated space to extend the partition

How to Extend C Drive size in Windows

It is safe to have one unallocated partition available next to the C drive on your hard disk. For example assume that, you have 220 GB C Drive and 500 GB D drive partition. If you are not using D drive to the full extent, first right click on the D drive in MiniTool Partition Wizard application and decrease the partition size. Once the command executed, now the freed up space will be available as unallocated space.

Extend C Drive by adding unallocated partition

How to Extend C Drive

Now you might have 100 or 200 GB very next to the C Drive. So now right click on the C drive in the MiniTool Partition Wizard application and select the “Extend” option and in the next screen move the slider to the right side to extend the partition and finally click OK.

Once you commit the changes by restarting your Windows computer, the partition size of the C drive will be increased.

Warning: You need have proper understanding the partition structure to avoid data loss. We are not responsible if you mistakenly removed any partition while resizing and extending the partition.