Win8 voice control for true mouse-free voice operation

How to activate speech recognition

First, the user needs to prepare a laptop and a microphone. The Windows 8 speech recognition program can support any type of microphone, even a loudspeaker built into the user's notebook. However, Microsoft said that microphones with a price of around $20 are the best.

The easiest way to activate speech recognition is to open the "Start& rdquo; (Start) interface, enter “speech" (Speech), in the search results, click “Windows Speech Recognition" Speech Recognition). When you open the program for the first time, you will enter the "tutorial/introduction" mode. Then, the user quickly launches and runs “Windows Speech Recognition” according to the prompts on the screen. This will cause the speech recognition template to appear at the top of the display. Click on the microphone icon and it will turn blue, then you can accept the user "voice command".

How to use speech recognition function

For example, if you want to open the built-in calculator program in Windows8 system, you need to open the Charms Bar super bar first, and then click to enter “ ” icon, right click, open the app, then click the calculator icon. However, if you use voice recognition, you just need to say, “Open the calculator” and click OK.

Here are a few basic voice control operations:

1) Open the calculator (or Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, etc.)”: You can open it without a click of the mouse The specified program is super convenient!

2)“Go to Word (or Excel, Internet Explorer…)”: Go to the application you specified.

3) & ldquo; Open the file (File. Open) & rdquo; For example, if you say "Edit", you can open the edit menu, say "Select all" & rdquo; (Select All) , execute the selection command.

4)“Print (Cancel, Desktop)”: You can click on any button or any tab in the dialog box by voice.

5)“Contact us""" 

6) Double-click Recycle Bin": Users can tell Windows to double-click or right-click on any icon or program you see on the screen.

7)“ Skip to the title (address, or body)”: In a mail, web page, browser, or dialog box, “Go toXXX” means to enter the section you specified. For example, “address” refers to the address box.

8) & ldquo; Close it (Close that) & rdquo; : Close the top window, of course, including "Minimize that" & ", Maximize that" & rdquo;

9) “ Scroll (up and down, left and right) & rdquo;: refers to scrolling up and down or left and right. In addition, you can also say "roll down 10 lines", the mouse pointer scrolls down 10 lines and stops.

10)“Press the F key (Shift+F, uppercase, down arrow, and zoom in 3 times)”: You can press any key with the voice command.

Drag and drop icons

The voice commands described above are suitable for clicking on the icons that appear on the screen, and they work well. But how do you “drag and drop” the icons on the screen?

For example, when the user says “Mousegrid”, a large 3 x 3 square is added to the screen. There are 9 squares, and both are numbered 1-9.

When you say, "5“, there will be a smaller 3 x 3 square in the fifth square. In this way, you can continue to "rather" the squares in this way until you lock the target on the screen. Then say "Four Mark", you can target the fourth grid, and say "Seven click" to click on the icon locked by the 7th square.