Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

Using Speech to Enter and Edit Data

If it can’t interpret what you say as a command, Windows Speech Recognition assumes that you’re trying to dictate. It then inserts its best guess at what you meant to say at the current insertion point. The accuracy of speech recognition is reasonably good after a short period of training, and it gets much better after time and practice. But it’s not perfect, nor are you likely to dictate smooth sentences with perfect syntax. As a result, you’ll want to master the basics of text editing using the voice commands in this section.

To delete the most recent word or phrase you dictated, say "Undo" or "Undo that."

If you want to change a word or phrase or sentence, start by saying "Select word" or, for a phrase, "Select ...