An Input Method Editor helps users to type in different languages & enter the special characters/symbols. See how to install & user IMEs on your Windows 11/10.

After selecting your desired input methods in the list, you can enable the input menu or use set hot keys to switch the input method. The default behavior is to apply these changes systemwide, but ...

The switch is only momentary — your preferred method remains the keyboard — so this helps for those single occurrences when you need voice search instead.

Video walkthrough This method certainly beats having to go into System Preferences every time you wish to change your audio output source or input source.

Input Method Editor or IME allows you to switch between different keyboard languages in Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is available on the Taskbar and denoted by the selected language.