Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Customizing Speech Recognition

After you've tried using speech recognition to dictate and issue voice commands, you may decide you want to customize it a bit. For example, you could create an additional profile for another location in which you work, customize audio settings, add words to the speech recognition dictionary, or perform additional voice training.

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If you're the only person using your computer, you might not think multiple profiles would be useful. But if you're mobile and work in a variety of locations—home, office, in the field, and so forth—creating a profile for each location can help increase accuracy. Even if you're working in a very temporary location such as a hotel room, it's worthwhile to create a new profile if ...