Voice recognition commands?

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David

Hi,

I've been experimenting with the voice recognition
commands of Word, and some of them don't seem to work.
For example, I read on a web page that the command "Next
word" should move the cursor to the next word. But when I
try it, Word doesn't recognize it. Now it doesn't appear
to be a recognition problem because I can dictate the
phrase "next word" and it comes out fine. I've tried a
lot of other basic voice commands
like "file", "up", "down", "left", "page up", etc. and
they all work. So what's the problem with "next word"?
I'm using Office 2003, and I live in Australia. If there
are commands that specifically apply to my Australian
version of Office, what are they?


David.
 
Recognition doesn't seem to be the issue since he can dictate "next word" as
text and Word recognizes it. It would appear that the problem is that Word
doesn't recognize "next word" as a command. This is not surprising. The KB
article "Speech Recognition Frequently Asked Questions" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826853 gives examples of characters that
can be dictated and refers users to Word's Help for information on commands.

The Help topic "Things you can do and say with speech recognition" offers
this list of commands under "Navigation examples" (note that they don't seem
to include any command for going to the next word):

END (command you can say)
Press END (keyboard or mouse equivalent)

Return
Enter
Press ENTER

Backspace
Delete
Press BACKSPACE

Back one word
Last word
Press CTRL+LEFT ARROW

Space
Space Bar
Press the SPACEBAR

Escape
Cancel (U.S. English only)
Press ESC

Right-click
Context menu
Right-click menu
Right-click a menu
(Not available in Japanese language version of Office)

Tab
Press TAB

Shift Tab
Press SHIFT+TAB

End
Go End
Press END

Home
Go Home
Press HOME

Up
Go Up
Press UP ARROW

Down
Go Down
Press DOWN ARROW

Left
Go Left
Press LEFT ARROW

Right
Go Right
Press RIGHT ARROW

Previous Page
Press CTRL+PAGE

Next Page
Press CTRL+PAGE+DOWN ARROW

Page Down
Press PAGE DOWN

Page Up
Press PAGE UP
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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But if it can "clearly understand what he is dictating" enough to render the
words correctly, then it should understand it clearly enough to perform the
action. He specified that if he used the words "next word" in Dictation
mode, they were correctly interpreted. The problem is that "next word" is
not one of the commands it is programmed to understand.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Use 'merican english. Australian english too far out. Keep on with the
training and maybe it will adapt.

(Don't take this too seriously).

Doug
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| | > Hi,
| >
| > I've been experimenting with the voice recognition
| > commands of Word, and some of them don't seem to work.
| > For example, I read on a web page that the command "Next
| > word" should move the cursor to the next word. But when I
| > try it, Word doesn't recognize it. Now it doesn't appear
| > to be a recognition problem because I can dictate the
| > phrase "next word" and it comes out fine. I've tried a
| > lot of other basic voice commands
| > like "file", "up", "down", "left", "page up", etc. and
| > they all work. So what's the problem with "next word"?
| > I'm using Office 2003, and I live in Australia. If there
| > are commands that specifically apply to my Australian
| > version of Office, what are they?
| >
| >
| > David.
| >
|
|
 
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