Caption a known spoken passage

Use this short passage to compare computer-audio captions with microphone input. The player contains a short synthetic English recording, with its passage printed below. It does not measure Windows caption accuracy.

The blue folder contains twelve postcards. The meeting starts at fourteen thirty. Please bring the green notebook.

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For the computer-audio comparison, leave Include microphone audio off in Live captions. Start captions, choose the spoken language, then play the passage. Compare the words you see with the passage, especially twelve and fourteen thirty. Captions may format numbers differently.

To compare microphone input, stop playback, turn Include microphone audio on, then read the passage aloud. Avoid playing another clip at the same time: Windows gives computer audio priority when both sources overlap.

If your browser cannot play the file, download the WAV and open it in a compatible audio player, or use the microphone exercise. No speech-recognition result is sent to this page.

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