Thread: Controlling the computer with pre-installed speech recognition

Vista has an integrated speech recognition-which you wish to use. But you want to activate this and need to know how it works?

To set up the speech recognition, open the Control Panel, click on 'Simplified Operation' and 'Speech recognition options'. Next, you must 'Start Speech Recognition' and follow the instructions given by the wizard. By doing that, you will automatically reach in the independent dialog 'Set up microphone', Here e.g" select the option 'Headset microphone' and click twice on 'Next'. Then say a sample sentence to calibrate the system. Through the green bar in the wizard, you can check sensitivity of the microphone reception.

In the following steps of the wizard, you can also 'Open Speech reference card' as additional help as well as the 'Run speech learning program'. Then a new function bar will appear on the screen, Using the round microphone symbol, click to switch from the 'Stand-by' mode to 'Listen now', Now you can control Vista with speech recognition. Both buttons along the right-border in the bar can be used to close the speech recognition or minimize in the info area of the task bar.

The main window always shows the current status, e.g. 'stand-by' after the first start. With 'Listen now', activate the speech recognition and see the status change to 'Listen'. If the system has not understood the command, It asks you to repeat with 'Pardon?'. With the command 'Show speech recognition options', you will directly reach the context menu to customize the speech recognition.