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Windows 10 comes fully equipped with speech recognition great if you prefer
to dictate rather than type but a word of caution the app does need to learn
how you speak or you'll spend a lot of time correcting your dictation to set it
up go to the search box and type speech recognition the first time you use it
you'll want to select the app and set it up Windows then takes you through the
setup process first it asks you to select the type of microphone you're
going to use a headphone mic is best but I'm using a slightly more complex
arrangement so I select other windows gives you a couple of useful hints about
using a microphone and then takes you to a microphone testing page and asks you
to read a short sentence
Peter dictates to his computer he prefers it to typing and particularly
prefers it to pen and paper if Windows is happy with the microphone level it
will tell you otherwise it'll ask you to make adjustments the next page takes you
to a document review option and frankly this is one of the weaknesses of all
speech recognition programs they need to learn how you speak before they can take
accurate dictation however the option to read your emails and documents will take
a long time and for the purpose of this demonstration I'm going to switch it off
next Windows gives you the option to activate speech recognition manually or
orally I prefer manual activation so that's what I choose here you are then
taken to an option to look at the reference sheet for voice activation
commands this is essential to learn or you'll struggle to get the app to do
anything and there is a lot to learn it's best to print out a copy and refer
to it you can google for a PDF version and download it you'll soon get the idea
and learn the basic commands it's fairly logical and guessing often produces
results next windows asks if you want to switch on speech recognition when
windows starts up that's my preference so I leave the box ticked the next
option takes you to the tutorial section now speech recognition is a complex app
and it's a good idea to run through these videos so at least you understand
the basics with Windows speech recognition you can control your PC with
your voice and dictate text instead of using a mouse or keyboard to open speech
recognition enter speech on the Start screen then select windows speech record
however don't expect the app to work accurately out of the box it does have to learn how you speak
well now we've set it up let's open up a Word document and try it out
first I need to make sure that speech recognition is turned on go to the icon
tray and select the voice recognition icon
I want to open the command box so I select open voice recognition the
command box pops up and now I can give it verbal commands next I open word to
get a new blank document I want to make sure that the cursor is placed at the
start of the document and that word is live I can now start dictating
unfortunately the app doesn't recognize my British accent without extensive
training so I'll have to fake an American accent to get anything like
decent voice recognition good morning
period new paragraph
this is Richard period space I am dictating and there it is the start and
only the start of voice recognition software if you need more help contact
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