Let's Find Out How To Use Windows Speech Recognition

1/ From within windows click on Start

2/ Now click on Control Panel

3/ Scroll down to Speech Recognition

4/ Click on Speech Recognition

On the right hand side you will see a list of items to select when starting speech recognition

Let's Set Up The Microphone

From the image seen above, locate the heading Set Up Microphone

1/ Click on the Set Up Microphone heading

The following window will appear:

2/ Click on the radio button to the left of Other

Other options are:

• Headset Microphone
  
• Desktop Microphone
  

Choose one of these if your microphone is not built into your device.

3/ Click on the Next button

The following window will appear:

This is a reminder for you to position yourself and the microphone in the correct distance from the other so that it can pick up your voice clearly.

4/ Once you've set this up correctly, click on the Next button on the bottom right as seen in the image above.

5/ Read and dictate the sentence given in the dialog box as seen in the image below

Note: you need to make sure that you speak clearly into the microphone so that the computer can you hear your voice clearly. If the computer has not heard your voice clearly, it will state that the computer has not heard your voice. You will need to click on the back button, and try again. Once you have dictated the sentence had successfully you can then click on next.

Just as a note of interest, most of this tutorial up until now, apart from the editing, has been dictated using Windows Speech Recognition. I found though, that I had to dictate it in WordPad / MS Word first and then copy and paste.

Now that you have set up your microphone successfully, you may now use windows speech recognition.

If this stage is not done correctly, you will find that Windows Speech Recognition will start typing garbled messages and this will frustrate you know end.

Mow that we know How To Set Up The Microphone, let's find out How To Start Using The Speech Tutorial.