Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26231 (Canary Channel)

Hiya House home windows Insiders, at current we’re releasing House home windows 11 Insider Preview Assemble 26231 to the Canary Channel.

Builders, please bear in mind that for a quick time-frame, we is just not going to be releasing an SDK for builds we flight to the Canary Channel.

What’s new with Assemble 26231

Narrator prospects can now use voice entry to dictate textual content material hands-free

Narrator prospects can start using voice access in Windows 11 to dictate textual content material with voice and take heed to what’s dictated. In addition to, you possibly can too use voice entry to supply Narrator directions. As an example, “Activate Narrator,” “talk faster,” “be taught alternative,” “be taught subsequent line,” and lots of others.

To know your total itemizing of Narrator directions supported with voice entry, click on on help icon (?) on the voice entry bar, select “View all directions” and choose “Narrator directions.”

What’s going to work:

• Start and organize voice entry which includes downloading a speech model.
• Study a list of voice entry directions and Narrator directions from voice entry help menu.
• Altering voice entry microphone state.
• Dictating textual content material with voice and listening to once more what was dictated.

Strategies:

• Whenever you don’t use headphones for listening to the show reader, the audio output from the show reader may get picked up by voice entry microphone, leading to undesirable habits.

[We are beginning to roll this out to Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback before pushing it out to everyone.]

FEEDBACK: Ship us options in Strategies Hub (WIN + F) beneath Accessibility > Narrator.

Auto Restart for Voice Entry & New Voice Entry Command for House home windows Search

We’re introducing auto restart for voice access in Windows 11. This operate ensures that voice entry will robotically restart if it encounters any factors so that individuals with restricted mobility can get once more to using voice entry as quickly as attainable. Prospects will not must rely upon completely different assistive utilized sciences or assist from others to reactivate voice entry. Must voice entry robotically restart as a consequence of a crash, we’re making it easier to report these crashes as quickly as voice entry restarts so the workers can study and work on fixes.

We’re introducing a model new command for searching straight with House home windows search. Prospects can now say the command Search “Entity”; Search House home windows for “Entity”; or Search for “Entity” to hunt for his or her desired software program or file in House home windows (“Entity” is modified with regardless of software program or file you want to search.)

[We are beginning to roll this out to Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback before pushing it out to everyone.]

FEEDBACK: Ship us options in Strategies Hub (WIN + F) beneath Accessibility > Voice entry.

Modifications and Enhancements

[Windows Share]

• We’re beginning to roll out the pliability to repeat info from the House home windows share window. Merely click on on the model new copy button.

Fixes

[File Explorer]

[Task Manager]

• Updated the fashions (from MHz to MT/s) for DDR velocity.
• Fixed an issue the place the Safely Take away {{Hardware}} chance for ejecting USB models wouldn’t work if Exercise Supervisor was open.
• Did some work to verify Exercise Supervisor releases course of handles quickly when terminating processes.
• Made some further enhancements to help with Exercise Supervisor reliability.
• We have now now improved the effectivity when altering the type order.
• Made numerous enhancements to basic accessibility of Exercise Supervisor, along with bettering keyboard focus, tab navigation, textual content material scaling, names of issues be taught out by show readers, and further.
• We made it barely easier to resize Exercise Supervisor when attempting to resize by grabbing the very best of the window.

Acknowledged factors

[General]

• [IMPORTANT NOTE] We’re investigating tales that some House home windows Insiders inside the Canary and Dev Channels are caught on Assemble 26040 or Assemble 23620. The investigation is ongoing, nonetheless should you’re impacted by this and truly want to get onto the newest assemble inside the Canary or Dev Channel at current – you might acquire the latest ISO here and do a transparent arrange and determine your gadget once more into flighting inside the Canary or Dev Channels.

Snipping Machine Change

We’re rolling out an exchange for Snipping Machine (mannequin 11.2405.24.0 and newer) to House home windows Insiders inside the Canary and Dev Channels that introduces automated save for show recordings. This operate works the an identical as automated save for screenshots. Your recordings will robotically be saved to Show display Recordings folder (inside your Films folder). You probably can choose to point out this off in Snipping Machine settings.

FEEDBACK: Please file options in Strategies Hub (WIN + F) under Apps > Snipping Tool.

Reminders for House home windows Insiders inside the Canary Channel

• The builds we launch to the Canary Channel shouldn’t be seen as matched to any explicit launch of House home windows and choices and experiences included in these builds may not at all get launched as we take a look at utterly completely different concepts and get options. Choices may change over time, be eradicated, or modified and not at all get launched previous House home windows Insiders. A couple of of those choices and experiences might current up in future House home windows releases as soon as they’re ready.
• Many choices inside the Canary Channel are rolled out using Control Feature Rollout technology, starting with a subset of Insiders and ramping up over time as we monitor options to see how they land sooner than pushing them out to everyone on this channel.
• Some choices in full of life enchancment we preview with House home windows Insiders might be not completely localized and localization will happen over time as choices are finalized. As you see factors with localization in your language, please report these factors to us via Strategies Hub.
• To get off the Canary Channel, a clean install of Windows 11 will be required. As a reminder – Insiders can’t change to a channel that’s receiving builds with lower assemble numbers with out doing a transparent arrange of House home windows 11 as a consequence of technical setup requirements.

• The desktop watermark confirmed on the lower correct nook of the desktop is common for these pre-release builds.

• Check out Flight Hub for a complete take a look at what assemble is throughout which Insider channel.

• Copilot in House home windows* is being rolled out step-by-step to House home windows Insiders all through our worldwide markets. Prospects inside the European Monetary Area might be able to acquire the Copilot in House home windows experience as an app from the Microsoft Retailer (coming shortly).

Thanks,
Amanda & Brandon

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