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How do you minimize windows voice access bar windows 11? It stays at the top of the screen. I have to minimize my EMR on remote desktop but I can only see the top or the bottom of the EMR screen, not both
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Hello Eliac, I don't think that message was what people are looking for. I agree, the new voice access bar is very invasive. It reduces my entire screen. Why take up the entire bar just for a microphone and a sentence telling me to say "wake up". I am very surprised it is this way and not easily minimized.
How do we use Voice without having this bar disrupt our screen?
The tool bar is invasive and not all apps (including some of Microsoft's) interact with it well meaning weird window behaviours , the option for a floating tool bar or better still a keyboard shortcut to turn it on/off would be great
there's no sense in this app taking up this much precious real estate on a laptop screen, not when this function could/should be toggled from a floating balloon,,, what is this 2004?
This implementation is ridiculous. Was this ever even user tested? Dragon's bar works perfectly well
I am a Dragon NaturallySpeaking user due to being a quadriplegic and I have always used Windows speech recognition as a backup when Dragon freezes up. I don't mind that Windows is switching to voice access but it would be nice if the program was able to be minimized and had a floating taskbar like Windows speech recognition instead of taking up the entire top of the screen.
