The feature of the Speech Recognition on Windows 10 comes with a hands-free use. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up and use this speech recognition feature on Windows 10 PC. Moreover, you’ll learn how to get the great experience and perform the common tasks while using this feature.
It’s an easy-to-use experience of the Speech Recognition on Windows 10. This allows controlling your PC with voice commands. It’s so simple to set that anyone can do it while dictating text, launching an app, or performing a slide of other tasks. But, it’s primarily designed so that people can get help, especially, for those who are disabled and can’t use keyboard or mouse. In this guide of the Windows 10 Speech Recognition, we are coming up with the following topics.
So, this guide includes:
How to:
- Configure Speech Recognition on Windows 10
- Train Speech Recognition to improve accuracy
- Change Speech Recognition settings
- Use Speech Recognition on Windows 10
- & Starting Speech Recognition on Windows 10
How to configure Speech Recognition on Windows 10
So, let’s know at first how to setup/ configure while using the Speech Recognition on Windows 10. To do it, follow the below steps:
To set up Speech Recognition on your device, use these steps:
- Go to the “Control Panel”.
- Now, click on “Ease of Access”.
And then, click on “Speech Recognition”.
- Under the Speech Recognition tab, click the “Start Speech Recognition” link.
- While you’re in the ‘Set up Speech Recognition’ page, you have to click “Next”.
- You can select here the type of microphone you’re going to use.
Note: It’s not ideal to use the desktop microphones, and Microsoft recommends to use the headset microphones or microphone arrays.
- Now, click “Next”.
- Again, click “Next”.
- Now, you can read the text loudly that you can hear it to ensure the feature.
- Click “Next”.
- Again click “Next”.
- This feature of the Speech Recognition may access your documents and emails while improving its accuracy based on your using words. Now, select the “Enable document review” option. Or, if you have privacy concerns, select “Disable document review”.
- Now, you have to click “Next”.
Here are two activation modes and pick one of them:
- Use manual activation mode – This mode of the Speech Recognition turns off the command “Stop Listening”. You have to click the microphone button or use the Ctrl + Windows key shortcut if you want to turn it on again.
Use voice activation mode — this mode of the Speech Recognition goes into sleep mode when it’s not in use. And you have to click the “Start Listening” voice command if you want to turn it on.
- Now, click “Next”.
- Click the “View Reference Sheet” button to learn more about the voice commands you can use if you’re not familiar with the commands.
- Next, click “Next”.
- Here, you have to select the option “Run Speech Recognition at startup”, if you want to start automatically at startup.
- Now, you have to click “Next”.
- Next, you can click the “Start tutorial” button if you want to access the Microsoft video tutorial about this feature. Or, you can click the “Skip Tutorial” button and it’ll complete the setup process.
- When you’ve completed the above steps, you can start using the feature with voice commands. There will be appeared the control surface at the top of the screen.
Quick Tip: There is an option to drag and dock the Speech Recognition interface that you can keep it at anywhere on the screen.
How to train Speech Recognition on Windows 10 to improve accuracy
While you complete the initial setup process, you can try to train the feature Speech Recognition on Windows 10. This can improve the accuracy of the feature and prevent the messages “What was that?” so, let’s know how to train it to improve its accuracy:
- For this, go to the “Control Panel”.
- Now, click on “Ease of Access”.
Next, you have to click on “Speech Recognition”.
- Now, you have to select “Train your computer to better understand you” link by clicking it.
- You have to click “Next” to continue with the training and follow the instructions as the app directs.
If you complete the training sessions, you have made it a better understanding of your voice. This will provide a better experience while using this feature.
How to change Speech Recognition on Windows 10 settings
If you want to make any change in the settings of the Speech Recognition on Windows 10, use these steps:
- To do it, go to the “Control Panel”.
- Now, click on “Ease of Access”.
- Next, click on “Speech Recognition”.
- You have to click the “Advanced speech options” link that comes with the left pane.
- Now, you have to go to the “Speech Recognition” tab inside the “Speech Properties”. It’ll allow you to customize some aspects of the experience. These include Language, Recognition profiles, User settings, and Microphone.
- You can control voice settings in the “Text to Speech” tab. You can set that includes Voice selection and Voice speed.
Moreover, its right-click always comes with the experience to open interface with the context menu. You can access all the different features and settings you can use with Speech Recognition.
How to use Speech Recognition on Windows 10
Since there is a little curve of learning, the Speech Recognition on Windows 10 likes to use clear plus easy-to-remember commands. Let’s explain it with some examples. If you say “Show Desktop”, it’ll minimize everything on the screen. Besides, if you say “Start”, it’ll open the Start menu. Moreover, when you say “Number”, it’ll make everything number on the screen. Then, you can say the number and to execute this command say “OK”.
Here are some more expels of the common tasks that can help you to start with Speech Recognition on Windows 10:
Starting Speech Recognition
To get the experience, go to the “Start” menu, type “Windows Speech Recognition” to search for. And select it as it comes at the top result.
Turning on and off
If you want to start using the Speech Recognition on Windows 10, you have to click the microphone button. Or, you can say “Start” and the listening depends on your configuration.
Sometimes, it lets you to off it saying the command “Stop listening”. Or, you can click the “microphone” button if you want to stop the Speech Recognition.
How to Use the Common Commands
Let’s know some of the commonly used commands:
- Open: You can launch an app if you say “Open” and then refer the name of the app. Here is the example; you can say “Open Mail” to open your mail app. Or, you can say “Open Firefox” if you want to open Firefox.
- Switch to: If you want to jump to another running app, simply “Switch to” referring the name of the app. Here is an example, you can say “Switch to Microsoft Edge” if you need to switch the app Microsoft Edge.
- Control window in focus: it lets you use the “Minimize,” “Maximize,” and “Restore” commands while controlling an active window.
- Scroll: This option allows you to scroll-down and scroll-up in a page. For this, just say the command “Scroll down” or “Scroll up“. It lets you go left and right while saying “Scroll left” or “Scroll right” as it’s also possible to specify long scrolls. For example, you can try: “Scroll down two pages.”
- Close app: If you want to close a running app, simply say “Close” and the name of the app. Here is the example; if you want to close the MS Word app, say “Close Word.”
- Clicks: if you’re inside an application, say “Click” to perform a click of the element. Here is the example; you’re in Word, if you say “Click Layout”, the Speech Recognition will open the Layout tab. There are options to use the “Right-click” or “Double-click” commands to perform these commands.
- Press: This command comes to execute shortcuts. For example, if you say “Press Windows A“, it’ll open the “Action Center”.
Using Dictation on Windows 10
Speech Recognition on Windows 10 is also able to convert voice into text while using the dictation functionality. Also, it works automatically. So, if you want to use dictate text, you have to open the app to start dictating. But, you have to ensure that the app is in the listening mode. Since you want the correct output; you have to say each punctuation and special character. Let’s be clear it with an example; if you want “Good morning, where do you like to go today?” sentence t insert, you have to speak, “Open quote good morning comma where do you like to go today question mark close quote”.
In case, you need to make a correction, you have to use the command “Correct” and then say the text that you need to change. Here is an example for you: if you had tried to write “suite” but it wrote “suit”, you have to say “Correct suite”. For this, you can select the suggestion using the correction panel. Or, you can say “Spell it” to speak the correct text, and then say “OK”.
Wrapping things up
The feature Speech Recognition on Windows 10 isn’t coming with an offer of the conversational experience that a personal assistant does. But, it’s still an influential tool for anyone who wants to control their device completely using the voice command. Besides, Cortana also offers to control a device with your voice. Because it has some limitations to a specific set of input commands, it’s not possible to control everything that appears on the screen. This doesn’t mean that you can’t get the best one than it.
Since Speech Recognition runs independently of Cortana, you can use the Microsoft’s digital assistant. It’ll help you with certain tasks and Speech Recognition to navigate plus execute other commands because if it worth nothing and this is not available in all language. This is only supporting the languages, such as US English and UK English along with French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Although this is a guide for the Speech Recognition on Windows 10, you can use it for Windows 8.1/7. Let us know if we have missed something. Besides, if you have anything to add or remove from it, comment in the below comment section.
