Windows Speech Recognition Commands

Question

Hello, I have more questions about speech recognition:

1. I tried to do online search with Mozilla Firefox by pronouncing the word "ENTER" (after entering the search words/phrases), but it did not work - what is the correct command for that?
2. I was not able to find a speech input icon with Google Translate (again using Mozilla Firefox) - how can I turn the function on?
3. How can I play, pause and stop a video in Windows Media Player with Speech Recognition?
4. Is there a way to open Desktop Calendar (I have to “left click” the time & the date on the bottom right corner of the desktop screen) using Speech Recognition?
5. What would be the command to tell Speech Recognition to flip (back and forth) PDF pages?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi, Ross! Thank you for your detailed answers to my questions. Because of you and Marty, now my daily life has become so much easier ...

Just one thing though - when I said "Start Calendar",  WSR took me to another type of calendar that occupies the whole screen instead of opening the one right on the desktop.        

Although I have 10 years experience with WSR, from the beginning I learned you just have to try different things. One of the things to know is that WSR works very well with keyboard commands as well as with labels of items on the screen.

Here is how I figured it out:

1. Issued the command, "Show Desktop." This was from this Reply window.
2. Said, "Show Desktop." It now shows in the speech bar, "Switching to desktop."
3. Now when on the desktop, issue the command, "Press tab." Now says, "Switched to taskbar"
4. At this point I glanced at that time, which was 11:56 AM and simply said 11:56 AM which opened the calendar you wish to work with.
5. You can now move around the calendar by saying either, "Tab," to move forward or, "Shift tab," to move backwards. When you get to the place you want like the up or down month caret, say, "Press enter."
6. To get to a different date in the calendar, say, "Show numbers."

It took me a few minutes to figure this out, but when should get familiar with trying to use keyboard and voice commands and show numbers, you should be able to navigate anywhere on the screen.

Marty Markoe, MyMSSpeech.com

Answer 2

Thank you, Russ! I tried it and it worked!!!

I will look into Windows Speech Recognition Macros - Is that similar to the option named "Open the speech dictionary" in Speech Recognition? I tried and add a new word using  "Open the speech dictionary", but it didn't really do anything ...

Answer 3

Thank you,Marty!!! I tried the commands and they all worked, except when I read the time to Speech Recognition, for some reason it did not bring up the desktop calendar - maybe because I have Windows 8 instead of 10? When I said "show numbers", Speech Recognition skipped date/time, meaning there was no number to choose for date/time, thus there was no way to select the date/time option on the task bar.

Answer 4

Thank you,Marty!!! I tried the commands and they all worked, except when I read the time to Speech Recognition, for some reason it did not bring up the desktop calendar - maybe because I have Windows 8 instead of 10? When I said "show numbers", Speech Recognition skipped date/time, meaning there was no number to choose for date/time, thus there was no way to select the date/time option on the task bar.

Reading the time should work in any version of Windows since Vista. Are you sure you said Tab after saying Show desktop?

Marty Markoe, MyMSSpeech.com

Answer 5

Thank you,Marty!!! I tried the commands and they all worked, except when I read the time to Speech Recognition, for some reason it did not bring up the desktop calendar - maybe because I have Windows 8 instead of 10? When I said "show numbers", Speech Recognition skipped date/time, meaning there was no number to choose for date/time, thus there was no way to select the date/time option on the task bar.

Reading the time should work in any version of Windows since Vista. Are you sure you said Tab after saying Show desktop?

Marty Markoe, MyMSSpeech.com

Instead of saying the time to click the clock, you can also say "system clock."

Jozefh, to answer your earlier question about WSR Macros, here's an example. Right now you're figuring out a sequence of things to say to get the desktop calendar to appear. What if you could create a single saying that would run through that sequence of sayings for you? That's what WSR Macros can do. Here's one:

<command priority="50">

    <listenFor>show calendar</listenFor>

    <emulateRecognition>switch to desktop</emulateRecognition>

    <waitFor seconds="0.25"/>

    <sendKeys>{TAB}</sendKeys>

    <waitFor seconds="1.0"/>

    <emulateRecognition>click system clock</emulateRecognition>

</command>

The above macro allows you to say "show calendar," and then the macro runs through the steps to make it happen. Basically it allows you to make your own speech commands.