Speech, text, and inking
The Speech, text, and inking settings configure privacy settings for speech recognition, inking, and personalization features on a Windows device.
The following table describes the speech and text input, Windows Ink, user experience, and preferences settings that you can configure on a Windows device:
| Policy setting | Description | Supported devices |
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| Speech and text input | ||
| Allow speech recognition models to update | If this setting is enabled, the device periodically checks for updated speech models and then downloads those models from a Microsoft service by using the background internet transfer service (BITS). |
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| Allow IME logging | Allows a user to turn off logging for incorrect conversion and saving auto-tuning result. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow IME network access | Allows a user to turn on the Open Extended Dictionary, internet search integration, to provide input suggestions that are not currently present in the device's local dictionary. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow input panel | Choose whether to allow a touch-based or handwriting keyboard on Windows. |
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| Allow language features to uninstall | Choose whether to allow or disallow the user to uninstall language features such as spell checkers on a device. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow linguistic data collection from input fields | Allows a user to turn off the sending of language-specific inputs from input scope fields to Microsoft for language improvements. |
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| Windows Ink | ||
| Allow Windows Ink workspace | Choose whether to enable or disable user access to the workspace. You can also choose to enable user access to the workspace except the lock screen. | Windows 10+ Education, Enterprise |
| Allow suggested apps in Windows Ink workspace | Choose whether to show suggested apps in the Windows Ink workspace. | Windows 10+ Education, Enterprise |
| User experience and preferences | ||
| Allow changes to language settings | Choose whether to allow or disallow the user from changing the language on the device. | Windows 10+ Education, Enterprise |
| Allow changes to region settings | Choose whether to allow or disallow the user from changing region settings on the device. | Windows 10+ Education, Enterprise |
| Allow changes to power and sleep settings | Choose whether to allow or disallow the user from changing power and sleep settings on the device. | Windows 10+ Education, Enterprise |
| Allow Windows consumer features | Choose to allow or disallow consumer features such as start suggestions, membership notifications, post-OOBE app installation, and redirect tiles. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow Windows spotlight | Choose whether to allow or disallow Windows spotlight features on the device. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow Windows tips | Choose whether to allow or disallow Windows tips or a soft landing on the device. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Allow Windows spotlight on lock screen | Choose whether to enable, enable with enterprise spotlight, or disable the spotlight on the user's lock screen. | Windows 10+ Professional, Education, Enterprise |
| Restrict feedback notification | If this setting is enabled, feedback questions from Microsoft are not displayed on the device. |
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