Speech in Word for Office 2004

Does Microsoft Word in Office 2004 for Mac include speech recognition? Is there a way to dictate text to Word?
-Paul

The Word in Mac Office does not support speech recognition features , so there's no way so far of dictating text to your PB .
Microsoft doesn't seem to be concerned about this either .
So keep using the keyboard for writing your text , because anyway speech recognition would be a hassle for word to dictate texts with even if it would be available .
And there are softwares to train your typing capabilities in no time .
I suggest you use them instead of waiting for Microsoft to release a speech recognizable version of Word for Mac Office .

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