Speech to Text problem

Question

I have speech to text enabled as I have difficulty sometimes using my hands. For those days that I don't have difficulty, I right click and ask it to not listen, then minimize it to a small icon on the right side of my taskbar.  I have been noticing how much of my resources this program is using and really would rather it didn't start up every time my computer does. However, if I just switch it off (x) rather than minimize, I lose the icon in the taskbar then have to go hunting for the program again or do a restart. Is there any way I can get the icon to stay in the taskbar so I can shut off and on as needed? Is there any way I can keep it from running at startup but be available to me without doing a search?.

Answer 1

For those days that I don't have difficulty, I right click and ask it to not listen, then minimize it to a small icon on the right side of my taskbar.  I have been noticing how much of my resources this program is using and really would rather it didn't start up every time my computer does.           

Are you putting the program to sleep by saying Stop Listening, rather than turning the microphone Off? When the microphone is in the Sleeping state, system resources are used as the software is monitoring for the Start Listening command. If you rather just turn the microphone Off and have the Speech Bar available:

1. Go to Speech Recognition in Control Panel
2. Click Advanced speech options
3. In Advanced Speech Options remove the checkmark from Enable voice activation.

See screenshot below where the checkmark is there, meaning it will hear Stop Listening/Start Listening and microphone is Sleeping rather than without the checkmark where the microphone goes to Off when you say Stop Listening and it will not use the system resources.

Marty

Answer 2

Thank you all. I turned it off so it doesn't start with Start-up and put a shortcut on the desktop.

Answer 3

Open Control Panel, Ease of access and right click on Speech recognition and drag to the Desktop. Select Create shortcut here. Then you will have a shortcut to open Start speech recognition. You won't have to hunt around to find it.

You might have to play around with it to get it do exactly what you want, but you get the idea