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Problem with capitalization in windows speech recognition using windows 7

Anonymous
2011-03-18T04:06:36+00:00

Perhaps I could get some help from a Microsoft technician who has USED SPEECH RECOGNITION and understands what I’m talking about.  The “caps” function has not worked in windows speech recognition since I upgraded from Windows Vista to windows 7.  The “all caps” function works, as does the “no caps” function.  I have tried creating a new user account but the problem remains the same.  The problem persists wherever I use speech recognition whether it is in an office 2010 product or Internet explorer or notepad or wordpad… everywhere.

I have written a book using windows speech recognition.  I know all of the commands.  My old computer with vista works perfectly.  This is the fourth time I am submitting this problem and keep getting the same answers.

I need some serious help!

Dr. Mindy Scott

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-10T06:51:16+00:00

    Here it is November, 2017, and I experience the same thing with Windows 10 (before and after each Creator upgrade). Can't work  with speech recognition without a keyboard. I experience the same issues with delete, select and correct commands relating to text already typed. Maybe one time in 15 does the command work. 

    Phil Burnside

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-27T00:31:51+00:00

    I have experienced a similar problem. How do you stop speech recognition capitalising words in the middle of a sentence?

    When correcting text, and inserting words or phrases into the middle of a sentence, speech recognition capitalises the first word, and the unwanted capital letter has to be changed manually to lower case. This is infuriating. The easiest workaround is to say the first word twice and delete the first, capitalised, word, but having to do this hundreds of times a day wears one down.

    Example:

    Original sentence:

    ‘The company made a 20% profit.’

    I want to insert ‘year-on-year, pre-tax’.

    When I say: ‘year-on-year, pre-tax’, speech recognition inserts: ‘Year-on-year, pre-tax’, and not what I want, which is: ‘year-on-year, pre-tax’, with the first ‘y’ in lower case.

    I get ‘The company made a 20% Year-on-year, pre-tax profit.’

    When I want: ‘The company made a 20% year-on-year, pre-tax profit.’

    Madness.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-07T22:50:09+00:00

    November 2013 - problem still exists. I discovered a workaround. After speaking your fragment, you need to say "lowercase" at the end and then the first inserted/recognized word becomes lowercase. Hope that helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-07-26T20:18:58+00:00

    I have just started using Voice Recognition in Windows 7.  When I found that Caps or Cap did not work to make a word or string of words initial caps, I tried using Capitalize and that has worked every time.  Give it a try.

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-03-19T03:12:44+00:00

    Hello,

    To clarify, when you say "caps microsoft" it doesn't type "Microsoft"?

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