Microsoft's latest preview build for Windows 11 insiders includes welcome voice access improvements which make this feature easier to use, especially with a touch keyboard.

This is because the organization has added numbered tear drops total keys from the touch keyboard, therefore allowing users to perform a series of operations easier.

For example, you can now use the touch keyboard for things like spelling words, entering numbers, punctuation marks and symbols, as well as emoji. To exhibit and hide the touch keyboard it's enough to simply say "show keyboard" or "hide keyboard," as the typing thing can be done having a command like "click number."

For the time being, however, the commands that are available for voice access with a touch keyboard continue to be limited.

For instance, as well as the ones mentioned above, users are only able to use voice access on and off commands, such as "turn off voice access."

Still within the works

The new voice access feature is a work in progress on Windows 11, with Microsoft polishing the overall knowledge about the release of recent preview builds.

"Voice access is really a new experience that allows everyone, including individuals with mobility disabilities, to control their PC and author text using their voice," Microsoft explains.

"For example, voice access supports scenarios like opening and switching between apps, browsing the net, and reading and authoring mail. Voice access leverages modern, on-device speech recognition to accurately recognize speech and is supported without an web connection. Voice access supports English-U.S. language only, so the Windows display language ought to be set to English-U.S., otherwise voice access may not act as expected.

At this time, there's no ETA as to when voice access could go live for production devices, but this might happen with the release of the very first Windows 11 feature update in the summertime.