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Windows Vista’s Speech Recognition Command Reference

Posted By Brent Trahan On 1.24.08 @ 9:10 am In All, Vista, Windows, Windows Speech Recognition | No Comments

Working with text

To do this	Say this
Insert a new line in the document	New line
Insert a new paragraph in the document	New paragraph
Insert a tab	Tab
Insert the literal word for the next command; for example, you can insert the word "comma" instead of the punctuation mark	Literal word
Insert the numeral form of a number	Numeral number
Put the cursor before a specific word	Go to word
Put the cursor after a specific word	Go after word
Do not insert a space before the next word	No space
Go to the start of the sentence that the cursor is in	Go to start of sentence
Go to the start of the paragraph the cursor is in	Go to start of paragraph
Go to the start of the document	Go to start of document
Go to the end of the sentence that the cursor is in	Go to end of sentence
Go to the end of the paragraph the cursor is in	Go to end of paragraph
Go to the end of the current document	Go to end of document
Select the word in the current document	Select word
Select the word range in the current document	Select word range; Select word through word
Select all text in the current document	Select all
Select the 1-20 words before the location of the cursor	Select previous 1-20 words; Select previous 10 words
Select the 1-20 words after the location of the cursor	Select next 1-20 words; Select next 10 words
Select the last text you dictated	Select that
Clear the selection on the screen	Clear selection
Capitalize the first letter of the word	Caps word
Capitalize all the letters of the word	All caps word
Make all the letters in the word lowercase	No caps word
Change the next number of words to uppercase	Change next number of words to uppercase
Change the next number of words to lowercase	Change next number of words to lowercase
Delete the previous sentence	Delete previous sentence
Delete the next sentence	Delete next sentence
Delete the previous paragraph	Delete previous paragraph
Delete the next paragraph	Delete next paragraph
Delete the selected or last dictated text	Delete that

Pressing keyboard keys

To do this	Say this
Press any key on the keyboard	Press keyboard key; Press a; Press capital b; Press SHIFT plus a; Press CTRL plus a
Press certain keyboard keys without saying "Press" first	Delete; Backspace; Enter; Page Up; Page down; Home; End; Tab

Punctuation marks and special characters

To make this appear	Say this
,	Comma
;	Semicolon
.	Period; Dot; Full stop; Decimal point
:	Colon
“	Open double quote; Open quote; Open inverted commas
”	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; Hash sign
$	Dollar sign
%	Percent sign
^	Caret
(	Open parenthesis; Open paren
)	Close parenthesis; Close paren
_	Underscore
-	Hyphen; Minus sign; Dash
–	En dash
—	Em dash; Double 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
:-)	Press smiley face
:-(	Press frowny face
;-)	Press winky face
™	Trademark sign
¾	Three quarter sign
¼	One quarter sign
½	One half sign
£	Pound sterling sign; pound; pound sign
&	Ampersand; and sign
*	asterisk
//	Double slash
`	Back quote
<	Open angle bracket
>	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
ƒ	Function sign

Working with common controls

To do this	Say this
Click any item by saying its name	File; Edit; View; Save; bold
Click any item	Click File; Click bold; Click Save; Click Close
Double-click any item	Double-click Computer; Double-click Recycle Bin; Double-click Folder name
Right-click any item	Right-click Computer; Right-click Recycle Bin; Right-click Folder name
Minimize all windows to show your desktop	Show Desktop
Click something you don’t know the name of	Show numbers (Numbers will appear on the screen for every item in the active window)
Click a numbered item	19 OK; 5 OK
Double-click a numbered item	Double-click 19; Double-click 5
Right-click a numbered item	Right-click 19; Right-click 5

Working with windows and programs

To do this	Say this
Open a program	Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open program name
Switch to an open program	Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application
Close a program	Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents; Close Internet Explorer (only works with the active window)
Restore	Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Internet Explorer (only works with the active window)
Minimize	Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Internet Explorer (only works with the active window)
Maximize	Maximize that; Maximize Paint; Maximize Internet Explorer (only works with the active window)
Cut	Cut that; Cut
Copy	Copy that; Copy
Paste	Paste
Delete	Delete that; Delete
Undo	Undo that; Scratch that; Undo
Scroll direction	Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll right; Scroll left
Scroll an exact distance in pages	Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages
Scroll an exact distance in other units	Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7
Go to a field in a form or a program	Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to Cc

Clicking anywhere on the screen

To do this	Say this
Show the mousegrid	Mousegrid
Move the mouse pointer to the center of any mousegrid square	number—or numbers—of the square; 1; 7; 9; 1, 7, 9
Click any mousegrid square	Click number of the square
Select an item to drag with the mousegrid	number—or numbers—of the square where the item appears; 3, 7, 9 (followed by) mark
Select an area where you want to drag the item with the mousegrid	number—or numbers—of the square where you want to drag; 4, 5, 6 (followed by) click

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