Windows Vista or 7 Speech Recognition Reference Card
I'm pretty impressed so far with the Speech Recognition built into Windows 7 but for some reason the Speech Recognition Reference Card was missing so I thought I'd post it here for those hunting through Google for it.
Working with text
| To do this | Say this |
|---|---|
| Insert a new line in the document | New line |
| Insert a new paragraph in the document | New paragraph |
| Insert a tab | Tab |
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Insert the literal word for the next command; for example, you can insert the word "comma" instead of the punctuation mark |
Literal word |
| Insert the numeral form of a number | Numeral number |
| Put the cursor before a specific word | Go to word |
| Put the cursor after a specific word | Go after word |
| Do not insert a space before the next word | No space |
| Go to the start of the sentence that the cursor is in | Go to start of sentence |
| Go to the start of the paragraph the cursor is in | Go to start of paragraph |
| Go to the start of the document | Go to start of document |
| Go to the end of the sentence that the cursor is in | Go to end of sentence |
| Go to the end of the paragraph the cursor is in | Go to end of paragraph |
| Go to the end of the current document | Go to end of document |
| Select the word in the current document | Select word |
| Select the word range in the current document |
Select word range; Select word through word |
| Select all text in the current document | Select all |
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Select the 1-20 words before the location of the cursor |
Select previous 1-20 words; Select previous 10 words |
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Select the 1-20 words after the location of the cursor |
Select next 1-20 words; Select next 10 words |
| Select the last text you dictated | Select that |
| Clear the selection on the screen | Clear selection |
| Capitalize the first letter of the word | Caps word |
| Capitalize all the letters of the word | All caps word |
| Make all the letters in the word lowercase | No caps word |
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Change the next number of words to uppercase |
Change next number of words to uppercase |
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Change the next number of words to lowercase |
Change next number of words to lowercase |
| Delete the previous sentence | Delete previous sentence |
| Delete the next sentence | Delete next sentence |
| Delete the previous paragraph | Delete previous paragraph |
| Delete the next paragraph | Delete next paragraph |
| Delete the selected or last dictated text | Delete that |
Pressing keyboard keys
| To do this | Say this |
|---|---|
| Press any key on the keyboard |
Press keyboard key; Press a; Press capital b; Press SHIFT plus a; Press CTRL plus a |
| Press certain keyboard keys without saying "Press" first |
Delete; Backspace; Enter; Page Up; Page down; Home; End; Tab |
Punctuation marks and special characters
| To make this appear | Say this |
|---|---|
| , | Comma |
| ; | Semicolon |
| . | Period; Dot; Full stop; Decimal point |
| : | Colon |
| “ | Open double quote; Open quote; Open inverted commas |
| ” | Close double quote; Close quote; Close inverted commas |
| ‘ | apostrophe |
| ‘ | Open single quote |
| ’ | Close single quote |
| > | Greater than sign |
| < | Less than sign |
| / | Forward slash |
| \ | Backslash |
| ~ | Tilde |
| @ | At sign |
| ! | Exclamation mark; Exclamation point |
| ? | Question mark |
| # | Number sign; Pound sign; Hash sign |
| $ | Dollar sign |
| % | Percent sign |
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^ |
Caret |
| ( | Open parenthesis; Open paren |
| ) | Close parenthesis; Close paren |
| _ | Underscore |
| - | Hyphen; Minus sign; Dash |
| – | En dash |
| — | Em dash; Double dash |
| = | Equal sign |
| + | Plus sign |
| { | Open brace; Open curly bracket |
| } | Close brace; Close curly bracket |
| [ | Open bracket; Open square bracket |
| ] | Close bracket; Close square bracket |
| | | Vertical bar |
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Press smiley face |
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Press frowny face |
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Press winky face |
| ™ | Trademark sign |
| ¾ | Three quarter sign |
| ¼ | One quarter sign |
| ½ | One half sign |
| £ | Pound sterling sign; pound; pound sign |
| & | Ampersand; and sign |
| * | asterisk |
| // | Double slash |
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` |
Back quote |
| < | Open angle bracket |
| > | Close angle bracket |
| ± | Plus or minus sign |
| « | Open angle quote |
| » | Close angle quote |
| × | Multiplication sign |
| ÷ | Division sign |
| ¢ | Cent sign |
| ¥ | Yen sign |
| § | Section sign |
| © | Copyright sign |
| ® | Registered sign, Registered trademark sign |
| ° | Degree sign |
| ¶ | Paragraph sign |
| … | Ellipsis; Dot dot dot |
| ƒ | Function sign |
Working with common controls
| To do this | Say this |
|---|---|
| Click any item by saying its name |
File; Edit; View; Save; bold |
| Click any item |
Click File; Click bold; Click Save; Click Close |
| Double-click any item |
Double-click Computer; Double-click Recycle Bin; Double-click Folder name |
| Right-click any item |
Right-click Computer; Right-click Recycle Bin; Right-click Folder name |
| Minimize all windows to show your desktop | Show Desktop |
| Click something you don’t know the name of |
Show numbers (Numbers will appear on the screen for every item in the active window) |
| Click a numbered item | 19 OK; 5 OK |
| Double-click a numbered item | Double-click 19; Double-click 5 |
| Right-click a numbered item | Right-click 19; Right-click 5 |
Working with windows and programs
| To do this | Say this |
|---|---|
| Open a program |
Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open program name |
| Switch to an open program |
Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application |
| Close a program |
Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents; Close Internet Explorer (only works with the active window) |
| Restore |
Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Internet Explorer (only works with the active window) |
| Minimize |
Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Internet Explorer (only works with the active window) |
| Maximize |
Maximize that; Maximize Paint; Maximize Internet Explorer (only works with the active window) |
| Cut | Cut that; Cut |
| Copy | Copy that; Copy |
| Paste | Paste |
| Delete | Delete that; Delete |
| Undo | Undo that; Scratch that; Undo |
| Scroll direction | Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll right; Scroll left |
| Scroll an exact distance in pages | Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages |
| Scroll an exact distance in other units | Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7 |
| Go to a field in a form or a program |
Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to Cc |
Clicking anywhere on the screen
| To do this | Say this |
|---|---|
| Show the mousegrid | Mousegrid |
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Move the mouse pointer to the center of any mousegrid square |
number—or numbers—of the square; 1; 7; 9; 1, 7, 9 |
| Click any mousegrid square | Click number of the square |
| Select an item to drag with the mousegrid |
number—or numbers—of the square where the item appears; 3, 7, 9 (followed by) mark |
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Select an area where you want to drag the item with the mousegrid |
number—or numbers—of the square where you want to drag; 4, 5, 6 (followed by) click |
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Comments
Scrub that, one of my stray command managed to delete my unprotected C drive files, basically everything apart from Windows and Program Files. Did manage to get it back but hardly the point.
I'd compare it to giving commands to a drunk puppy, yeah the simple ones get through but anything difficult (like dictating) end up with it pissing all over the rug then setting fire to it.
I really like the idea of Speech Recognition so I've not given up yet even though it deleted my Downloads folder. Fair enough the dictation feature can't understand Scottish (or at least my slurred Scottish) but the navigation commands like 'pause' and 'play' can still be useful.
I think by running it as a different user with less privileges it could be safe to use. In Windows 7 you need to hold shift then right click the application to get the 'run as a different user' option.