Common Commands in Speech Recognition
Common Commands in Speech Recognition
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2. Say "start listening" or click the Microphone button to start the listening mode.
Note
Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
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commands that are currently available Make the computer listen to you Make the computer stop listening Move the Speech Recognition microphone bar Minimize the microphone bar
Refresh speech commands Start listening Stop listening Move speech recognition Minimize speech recognition How do I do something? For example, say How do I install a printer? and a list of help topics is returned. Note that this command is only available if you're using the U.S. English Speech Recognizer. For more information, see Setting speech options.
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Select the last text you dictated Clear the selection on the screen Capitalize the first letter of the word Capitalize all the letters of the word Make all the letters in the word lowercase Change the next number of words to uppercase Change the next number of words to lowercase Delete the previous sentence Delete the next sentence Delete the previous paragraph Delete the next paragraph Delete the selected or last dictated text
next 10 words Select that Clear selection Caps word All caps word No caps word Change next 10 words to uppercase Change next 10 words to lowercase Delete previous sentence Delete next sentence Delete previous paragraph Delete next paragraph Delete that
Notes
You can also use the ICAO\NATO phonetic alphabet to say the keyboard keys to press. For example, you can say "press alpha" to press "a" or "press bravo" to press "b." Using Speech Recognition to press keyboard keys will only work with Latin alphabets.
Punctuation marks and special characters Commands for punctuation marks and special characters
The following table shows commands for using Speech Recognition to insert punctuation marks and special characters. Words in italic font indicate that you can say many different things in place of the example word or phrase and get useful results. To make this appear Say this , Comma ; Semicolon . Period; Dot; Decimal point
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Colon Open double quote; Open quote Close double quote; Close quote; Close inverted commas Apostrophe Open single quote Close single quote Greater than sign Less than sign Forward slash Backslash Tilde At sign Exclamation mark; Exclamation point Question mark Number sign; Pound sign Dollar sign Percent sign Caret Open parenthesis; Open paren Close parenthesis; Close paren Underscore Hyphen; Minus sign; Dash En dash Em dash Equal sign Plus sign Open brace; Open curly bracket Close brace; Close curly bracket Open bracket; Open square bracket Close bracket; Close square bracket Vertical bar Smiley face Frowny face Winky face Trademark sign Three quarter sign One quarter sign One half sign Pound sterling sign Ampersand; And sign Asterisk Double slash Back quote Open angle bracket
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Close angle bracket Plus or minus sign Open angle quote Close angle quote Multiplication sign Division sign Cent sign Yen sign Section sign Copyright sign Registered sign, Registered trademark sign Degree sign Paragraph sign Ellipsis; Dot dot dot Function sign
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To do this Open a program Switch to an open program Close a program Minimize Maximize Restore Cut Copy Paste Delete Undo Scroll in one direction Scroll an exact distance in pages Scroll an exact distance in other units Go to a field in a form or a program
Say this Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open program name Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Documents Maximize that; Maximize Paint; Maximize Documents Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Documents Cut that; Cut Copy that; Copy Paste Delete that; Delete Undo that; Scratch that; Undo Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll right; Scroll left Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7 Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to Cc
Click anywhere on the screen Commands for clicking anywhere on the screen
The following table shows commands for using Speech Recognition to click anywhere on the screen. Words in italic font indicate that you can say many different things in place of the example word or phrase and get useful results. To do this Show the mousegrid Move the mouse pointer to the center of any mousegrid square Click any mousegrid square Say this Mousegrid Numberor numbersof the square; 1; 7; 9; 1, 7, 9
Click number of the square Numberor numbersof the square where the item Select an item to drag with the mousegrid appears; 3, 7, 9 (followed by) mark Select an area where you want to drag the Numberor numbersof the square where you want item with the mousegrid to drag; 4, 5, 6 (followed by) click
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