On Windows 10, Speech Recognition is an easy-to-use experience that allows you to control your computer entirely with voice commands.
Anyone can set up and use this feature to navigate, launch applications, dictate text, and perform a slew of other tasks. However, Speech Recognition was primarily designed to help people with disabilities who can't use a mouse or keyboard.
In this Windows 10 guide, we walk you through the steps to configure and start using Speech Recognition to control your computer only with voice.
How to configure Speech Recognition on Windows 10
To set up Speech Recognition on your device, use these steps:
Once you complete these steps, you can start using the feature with voice commands, and the controls will appear at the top of the screen.
Quick Tip: You can drag and dock the Speech Recognition interface anywhere on the screen.
How to train Speech Recognition to improve accuracy
After the initial setup, we recommend training Speech Recognition to improve its accuracy and to prevent the 'What was that?' message as much as possible.
After completing the training, Speech Recognition should have a better understanding of your voice to provide an improved experience.
How to change Speech Recognition settings
If you need to change the Speech Recognition settings, use these steps:
Inside 'Speech Properties,' in the Speech Recognition tab, you can customize various aspects of the experience, including:
In the Text to Speech tab, you can control voice settings, including:
Additionally, you can always right-click the experience interface to open a context menu to access all the different features and settings you can use with Speech Recognition.
How to use Speech Recognition on Windows 10
While there is a small learning curve, Speech Recognition uses clear and easy-to-remember commands. For example, using the 'Start' command opens the Start menu, while saying 'Show Desktop' will minimize everything on the screen.
If Speech Recognition is having difficulties understanding your voice, you can always use the Show numbers command as everything on the screen has a number. Then say the number and speak OK to execute the command.
Here are some common tasks that will get you started with Speech Recognition:
Starting Speech Recognition
To launch the experience, just open the Start menu, search for Windows Speech Recognition, and select the top result.
Turning on and off
To start using the feature, click the microphone button or say Start listening depending on your configuration.
In the same way, you can turn it off by saying Stop listening or clicking the microphone button.
Using commands
Some of the most frequent commands you'll use include:
Using dictation
Speech Recognition also includes the ability to convert voice into text using the dictation functionality, and it works automatically.
If you need to dictate text, open the application (making sure the feature is in listening mode) and start dictating. However, remember that you'll have to say each punctuation mark and special character.
For example, if you want to insert the 'Good morning, where do you like to go today?' sentence, you'll need to speak, 'Open quote good morning comma where do you like to go today question mark close quote.'
In the case that you need to correct some text that wasn't recognized accurately, use the 'Correct' command followed by the text you want to change. For example, if you meant to write 'suite' and the feature recognized it as 'suit,' you can say 'Correct suit,' select the suggestion using the correction panel or say 'Spell it' to speak the correct text, and then say 'OK'.
Wrapping things up
Although Speech Recognition doesn't offer a conversational experience like a personal assistant, it's still a powerful tool for anyone who needs to control their device entirely using only voice.
Cortana also provides the ability to control a device with voice, but it's limited to a specific set of input commands, and it's not possible to control everything that appears on the screen.
However, that doesn't mean that you can't get the best of both worlds. Speech Recognition runs independently of Cortana, which means that you can use the Microsoft's digital assistant for certain tasks and Speech Recognition to navigate and execute other commands.
It's worth noting that this speech recognition isn't available in every language. Supported languages include English (U.S. and UK), French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional), and Spanish.
While this guide is focused on Windows 10, Speech Recognition has been around for a long time, so you can refer to it even if you're using Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.
More Windows 10 resources
For more helpful articles, coverage, and answers to common questions about Windows 10, visit the following resources:
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I can't seem to find anything on this. Are there any Siri classes or API's in iOS7 that let you do text to speech? All I am trying to do is something like the following:
And then have Siri say it from my app.
It seems we should be capable of doing this, no? Seems like a trivial thing.
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Since iOS 7 you have a new TTS Api.
In Objective C
In Swift
You can also change the voice like this :
And then speek
Don't forget to
import AVFoundation
Helpful methods
You can Stop or Pause all speech using these two methods :
The
AVSpeechBoundary indicates if the speech should pause or stop immediately (AVSpeechBoundaryImmediate ) or it should pause or stop after the word currently being spoken (AVSpeechBoundaryWord ).
Check the AVSpeechSynthesizer Doc
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This is Ali ABBAS' answer for use in a playground:
Matt BearsonMatt Bearson
I have never done any work specifically with Siri. I may be wrong, but I think integrating with Siri is very difficult using private API's.
I would take a look at the openears framework for IOS. I have done some basic work with this in the past and it does both offline speech recognition and synthesized speech/text-to-speech
Hope this helps you.
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Here you will find a text to speech (TTS) sample app (Objective-C) based on this
Siri Text To Speech Reader
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