More of this please, Microsoft – we want to see more quality-of-life improvements for Windows 11 like better Voice Access and power-saving features

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– we want to see more quality-of-life improvements for Windows 11 like better Voice Access and power-saving features

Windows 11 has a new preview build in the Dev channel – one of the earlier testing channels – and it brings some worthwhile improvements for voice functionality and power-saving, plus some other tweaks besides.

This is preview build 26120 and as mentioned, one of the ******* changes is with Voice Access. According to

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, there’s an improved “spelling and corrections experience” for the feature. This is used during dictation when you notice that Voice Access has misspelt a word, and it allows you to run a correction – saying the correct spelling out loud, letter by letter, for said word.

Specifically, the change means you can now dictate characters at a faster speaking speed when spelling out a correction for a word, and Voice Access will keep up (or should do, hopefully). Also, you can now use dictation commands here, to select or delete something, for example.

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Useful moves to help save power

Some other nifty tweaks are applied in this preview build to help with power saving, including a change for Energy Saver mode (which is due to replace Battery Saver, the existing mode for Windows 11). With build 26120, when you’re running a laptop on battery – and Energy Saver is set to ‘Always On’ and you will get a notification urging you to plug in your laptop if its charge goes down to 20%.

Another power-saving measure is a new recommendation that suggests turning off HDR on your display to conserve energy (assuming it supports HDR, naturally – which allows for improved contrast and more vivid colors). This will appear as part of the recommendations provided in Settings > Power & battery > Energy recommendations.

Other improvements implemented by

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here include a new option to turn off ‘enhanced mouse pointer precision’ if you’re not keen on it, and the ability to change the mouse wheel scrolling direction (in Settings > Bluetooth & Device > Mouse).

Overall, it’s not the most dynamic Windows preview build I’ve ever seen, and some of these changes have been sighted elsewhere previously, but I appreciate that

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is continually working to genuinely improve the Windows 11 experience in various ways, including accessibility and energy saving – two very important areas for the OS.

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