What is Dictation Everywhere in Windows Speech Recognition?
Some text fields in custom applications don't support what's needed for direct dictaton. In those cases Windows Speech Recognition has an alternative input method. It's called "Dictation Everywhere." You can turn it on by doing this:
- Say, "Show speech options."
- Say, "Options."
- Say, "Dictation everywhere."
That will toggle it on. Doing those three steps again will turn it off.
When Dictation Everywhere is turned on, it will listen for the user to speak dictated text, even when they're not in an text field that supports direct dictation. But because the field doesn't support the right APIs, instead of just sticking the text in there, the user has a short interaction with the WSR correction tool first. Otherwise, the user wouldn't be able to correct the text if there was a recognition error.
So if you're in one of those fields, use the three steps above to turn on dictation, then you can say, "Hello, period. This is a test, period." The correction dialog will pop up and allow you to pick an alternative from the list. If you don't see what you really said, simply say it again. If you still don't see what you said, you can say, "spell it," and spell what you wanted.
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