Although the big news about the Windows Insider program came yesterday with the announcement that an update to Windows 11 22H2 will be coming next week to introduce Copilot to rank and file Windows 11 users, Microsoft still has the business of releasing Windows Insider builds in front of it, and today there’s a new build, 23550, for Insiders in the Dev Channel.
This latest build includes one new feature, as part of expanded work on bringing Voice Access to more parts of Windows, and that’s Voice Access in the Out of Box Experience (OOBE):
As part of the work mentioned in Build 23516 for making voice access available to use on more areas in Windows, voice access can be used for setting up your new Windows devices and navigate through OOBE (“out of box experience”). You can launch the accessibility flyout on the bottom right corner of their screens and click on voice access to enable it.
NOTE: You will need to make sure you set up an internet connection while setting up a new device to enable the language model download and set up voice access to use it.
You can navigate OOBE, insert passwords using the on-screen keyboard, type text using dictation and control your mouse and focus using number and grid overlays once voice access has been enabled.
Along with that, there’s a reminder that there’s a new version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2.0), and a list of fixes and known issues. Be sure to check out the Windows Insider blog post for all the details.
