Then you would say "Open Internet Explorer". If your web browser is Internet Explorer. Yes that’s right the whole experience can be run by speech commands. Check out the section of the Microsoft tutorial (mentioned earlier) called Commanding. It is possible to operate your computer with just your voice.
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Hot Tip! When you want to talk to someone else in the room or take a call say “Stop Listening” or you’ll end up with a page full of gobbylie goop. Just remember all that you really need to know is "What can I say?” Here you'll find eight categories of commands. Remember many words sound very similar when they are spoken such as sentence and sense. So pronounce each word in phrases or sentences. You don't need to speak slowly, in fact speech recognition software works better with sentences and phrases than it does with single words. The more time that you spend here the better results you will get. Not too long ago, you would be considered odd if you talked to your computer, now we are talking to it to train it? Anyway my advice is to spend as much time in this section as you possibly can. It may be quite difficult to grasp the concept of training a computer. The concept of training someone is easy for us to understand.
Training your computer to better understand you I would have to say that this is better than most and it’s free so don’t miss this free learning opportunity.ġ0/10 for this feature. I have paid for a lot of MS eLearning courses, Certiport and GMetrics online interactive learning courses when I sat my MOS 2010 exams. You will be taken through interactive events where all the basic commands and things that you need to know will be presented to you. Volume and quality are checked before you proceed. When this option is clicked Microsoft checks to see if your microphone is suitable. When you say this command, speech recognition opens a dialog box with all the commands for you. What you say will be interpreted as dictation.Īll that you really need to know is "What can I say?”. What you say will be interpreted as a command.ģ. You will not be understood and offered a suggestion.Ģ. As an example if you said “I am speaking” it interprets this as dictation whereas if you say “Stop Listening”, which is a command, it actions that command and puts speech recognition to sleep.ġ. So when speech recognition understands a command it carries out that command (this is called commanding) when it does not interpret what you say as a command it then interprets it as dictation and then types it for you. If speech recognition does not understand your command then it will offer a suggestion such as "Spell it".
Each command that is given is shown in the box provided. If you wish it to stop, then you would simply say "Stop Listening". You will notice that it says “Listening”. Watch it as you speak and you will soon understand that a 2 way exchange is occurring. Speech recognition uses this feature to talk to you. I set mine to appear when the computer starts. You can see the five training options that Microsoft presents Here are the 2 that I use.įirst go to Start, Control Panel, Speech Recognition. For a good USB headset you can expect to pay between $30 to $100. This will do the job just fine and is relatively inexpensive. Most computer users do not possess this type of equipment. You might have a condenser microphone, a mixer and amplifier, that's great, use that by all means. If you just want to play around and are happy that you will not get good results you could use the built-in microphone in your computer. Take the time and view the video in this blog.You can see the five training options that Microsoft presents.Let's get started with our Speech Recognition Software office tutorial.