Here's a nifty trick: just say, "Show numbers," and all interactive elements in the active window will be overlaid with numbers, as shown in Figure H. Now all you have to do is say the number of the button you want to click. An OK box will appear on that element. Say, "OK," and you've clicked the button. If you don't know how to do something, you can use Help in English only by asking, "How do I" followed by the task you want to perform.
For example, you might ask, "How do I turn on speech recognition? You can dictate text into any speech-enabled application. You are not limited to Microsoft Office applications as you were in the past. For example, you can dictate into Notepad or WordPad. You can also dictate into the Windows Live Writer blogger application. I was not able to dictate into Open Office Writer and other non-Microsoft programs by default, but when I selected Options Enable Dictation Everywhere from the Speech context menu, which is used to dictate text into programs that don't automatically accept dictation, I was able to dictate to the Open Office program.
However, it didn't work as well as with Microsoft programs. Instead of immediately typing the text I spoke, it would pop up a number of alternatives for me to choose from. With the Speech APIs, developers can make their applications speech-enabled and many more probably will in the future. When you're dictating, Vista will type everything you say into the document.
It can be a little disconcerting if, while working on a document, you stop to talk to a colleague and then find your end of the conversation transcribed into the document. After a while, it becomes second nature to tell Vista, "Stop listening" when you want to say something you don't want transcribed. It's likely that Vista will make mistakes when transcribing your dictation. The good news is that they're easy to correct. For example, if you say, "I need another byte" and Vista types "I need another bite," you can just say, "Correct bite," and you'll be presented with a list of replacement words, as shown in Figure J.
If the correct word isn't in the list, just say, "Spell it. You can access several advanced configuration settings by clicking the Advanced Speech Options link in the left pane of the Speech Recognition Options dialog box, as shown in Figure L. Here, you can create and train speech recognition profiles. This is useful when more than one person shares the computer. You can also choose whether to run speech recognition at startup and whether to allow the computer to review your documents and mail to improve the accuracy of the speech recognition engine.
In addition, you can select the number of spaces to insert after punctuation marks and adjust the microphone level. I was impressed with the ease of use and accuracy of the Vista speech recognition engine after half an hour of training time.
I've tried dictation programs before and never found them at all usable; I could always type much faster than I could dictate and correct text.
Now I finally feel that if I should ever lose the use of my hands, there would still be a way for me to continue to get my work done. For me, a combination of speech recognition primarily for commands and keyboard input works well.
I can't vouch for how fast it works on a less powerful computer. I'm also using a headset microphone. As I mentioned, my experiences shows that a desktop microphone doesn't work nearly as well. Putting in some time training it to your own voice also makes a big difference. For obvious reasons, speech recognition wouldn't work well in a noisy environment where you share an office with other people who are talking or on the phone while you work, nor would it work well if you like to listen to music or talk radio while you work.
Before you decide to start talking to your computer all the time, be aware that there's a security issue involved with using speech recognition.
George Ou went into detail about it in his blog. Here's the gist: An attacker could embed a sound file that plays automatically when you go to a Web page or send you a sound file in e-mail that plays when you double-click on it. If the sound file that plays through your computer speakers is a command recognized by Vista's Speech engine, and the speech recognition feature is running, the computer will carry out the command.
This isn't quite as scary as it could be. To perform most administrative tasks in Vista, you have to respond to the User Account Control prompt, which can't be done by voice.
However, it's possible for the attacker to delete a file on your computer using this method. When speech recognition is in Sleep mode, it responds only to the words "Start listening"--but the attacker could easily put that phrase at the beginning of the sound file to turn it on.
Thus, the best practice is to always turn speech recognition off completely when you aren't using it, rather than leaving it in Sleep mode, and don't configure it to run when you start Windows. Debra Littlejohn Shinder, MCSE, MVP is a technology consultant, trainer, and writer who has authored a number of books on computer operating systems, networking, and security. Deb is a tech editor, developmental editor, and contributor to over 20 add Figure A Vista speech recognition is set up and configured through the Control Panel.
How it works There are two ways to use speech recognition technology: To control the software: Start and close programs and switch between them, save and delete files, and so forth. To dictate text to be typed verbatim into a document and edit the text.
Setting up and configuring speech recognition Before you can start using speech recognition, you need to complete the following steps: Turn on speech recognition. Set up your microphone. Complete a tutorial not required, but recommended. Train the recognition engine to understand your voice not required, but recommended. Figure C The first step is to configure your speech recognition experience. Figure D The Speech control console appears at the top of the screen when speech recognition is turned on.
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This is different from using speech input on your iPhone, or Cortana on Windows. But the Speech Recognition system in Windows must be trained. You must do the training! With no training, the Speech Recognition system will not understand you at all.
The more training you do, the better the system will get. Training simply involves reading back to the computer a number of sentences that appear on the screen. The training takes about five minutes. Now that you have finished the training, the computer has a set up audio files that contain your voice. The Speech Recognition system compares the words you dictate in Microsoft Word to words in the training files to make the best possible guess at what you are saying.
The defaults are fine for most people. But feel free to explore. You can hurt anything, and you can always change the settings back from the defaults. The Advanced Speech Options give you some additional control over how the Speech Recognition system behaves when you start up your computer. Make sure that you have the language properly set correctly. It should match your system language settings or you will get error messages.
For example, if you have your system language settings to Spanish, you may get an error with the Speech Recognition setting for US English. So be sure they match. When you set up your microphone and do the voice training, this information becomes part of the Default Speech Profile. For example, say you are using a notebook or tablet computer, and you sometimes use speech to text with the built-in microphone and sometimes use a headset microphone.
The acoustics will be quite different depending on the microphone. You could set up a new profile and call it Headset Profile. For the Headset Profile, you do voice training with the headset microphones, and you switch to the Headset Profile any time you use your headset microphone. You should create a new User Account for that person if you share the computer. This is because the Speech Recognition system not only learns your voice, but your vocabulary as well.
Each user should set up Speech Recognition on their own User Account. Check this box if you want to have the Shared Speech Recognizer launch when you start up Windows. Beside speech to text and voice commands in Microsoft Word, you can use it for launching programs and opening files. If you check this box to activate the feature, the Speech Recognition system will work in the background to read your Microsoft Word documents and learn the vocabulary you use. Over time, this information about you will improve the accuracy of your dictation.
Turn on this feature and add Microsoft Word documents to your Documents Folder that contain vocabulary words, phrases and proper names that you write about for work or school. The system will review them, improving the chances of accurately interpreting your dictation in the future when you use those words. But this check box needs to be checked for that feature to work. You can set this value to have one or two spaces follow periods when you do dictation.
Back in the typewriter days, two spaces followed a period.
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