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Take Speech Tutorial

Quick and informative speech recognition tutorials will help you quickly get started using Windows Speech Recognition.

Mouse actions
Keyboard actions
1

On the Start menu, select:

  • Control Panel.
  • Ease of Access.
  • Speech Recognition.

Display the Start menu by pressing the Windows logo key [image: Windows logo key] , then select.

  • Control Panel by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
  • Ease of Access by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
  • Speech Recognition Options by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
2

In Configure your Speech Recognition experience, select:

  • Take Speech Tutorial.

In Configure your Speech Recognition experience, select:

  • Take Speech Tutorial by pressing ALT+P.
3

In the Speech Recognition Tutorial:

  • Read the introduction, then select Next to proceed through the tutorial.

Note: Since this tutorial is about speech recognition, you'll need to use your microphone and voice to proceed through it. You can use the mouse to select Next, if you'd like, or move forward and backward by selecting the sections at the bottom of your screen.

In the Speech Recognition Tutorial:

  • Read the introduction, then select Next by pressing ENTER to proceed through the tutorial.

Note: Since this tutorial is about speech recognition, you'll need to use your microphone and voice to proceed through it. You can press ENTER to select Next, if you'd like, or move forward and backward by selecting the sections at the bottom of your screen by pressing ALT+the underlined letter.


More Speech Recognition Tutorials


Tip

To get a list of keyboard shortcuts for Speech Recognition, just right-click the Speech Recognition UI (bar with microphone button), when Speech Recognition is turned on, and select Open Speech Reference Card.




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