Otak Atik [dot] Com » Microsoft Excel http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:06:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Speech Recognition On Microsoft Excel http://www.otakatik.com/speech-recognition-on-microsoft-excel/ http://www.otakatik.com/speech-recognition-on-microsoft-excel/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:18:06 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=261 Microsoft Office XP has including Speech Recognition in its installation package. With Speech Recognition you can dictate your document or give it some commands, so you have an alternative input method beside type them by keyboard. So I want share its commands list to make it easier and how to install it if you don’t have it yet.

OK, for check if you have speech recognition has installed check the microphone icon on languange bar (picture on step 9), if you can’t find the microphone icon on toolbar, it means the speech recognition doesn’t installed yet.
Here is to install it :

  1. Click Start – Control Panel icon.
    Start-Control Panel
  2. Double click Add/Remove Programs icon.
    Add-Remove Programs
  3. Find Microsoft Office XP Professional in Add/Remove Programs list and click its Change button.
    Setup Microsoft Office
  4. After Microsoft Office XP Setup has been opened, choose Add or Remove Features option then click Next button.
    Setup Microsoft Office
  5. Find Speech component under Office Shared Features -> Alternative User Input category,
    Choose Speech featureafter you find it click the icon and choose Run from My Computer menu then click Update button.Choose Speech feature
  6. Insert your Microsoft Office CD if you are asked.
    Insert your MS Office CD
  7. Then install progress will continue…
    Installation progress
  8. If the language bar icon doesn’t appear on taskbar (like in picture on step 9), just right click the taskbar and choose Toolbars -> Language bar menu.
    Open language toolbar
  9. And the language bar icon will display in taskbar, usually located near tray icon.
    language icon on tasbar
  10. Now, open the Microsoft Excel program.
    Open Microsoft Excel
  11. After Microsoft Excel is opened, click Language bar icon on taskbar and choose Show the Language bar menu.
    Show language bar
  12. To use speech recognition, click Microphone icon (if it is already pressed, leave it, because if it has pressed, it means it has activated) and then click Voice Command icon.
    Language bar
  13. If you use it for the first time you will ask to train it first, you can skip it but if you’re training it the accuracy will increase from 80-85% to 95%.
    Training speechTraining speech
  14. And if the training is over you may try it, try to speak “File” and if the program recognize it
    Try to speech
    the File menu will open.
    Result

And here are the commands list :

Command to say Command Result

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More buttons

 Display all command in menu
Tab Move to next focus
Shift Tab Move to previous focus
Escape To cancel current action
Cancel To close save/open dialog without take its action
HomeGo Home Go to first row
EndGo End Go to end of row
LeftLeft Arrow

Arrow Left

Go Left

 Move one cell to left
RightGo Right

Right Arrow

Arrow Right

 Move one cell to right
UpGo Up

Up Arrow

Arrow Up

 Move one cell to up
DownGo Down

Down arrow

Arrow down

 Move one cell to below
ReturnEnter

New Line

Next Line

 Move to one row below or to confirm open/save dialog
Page up Scroll up one page
Page down Scroll down one page
Backspace Insert backspace
Space Insert space
Delete Remove all select content
Previous Page Move to previous sheet
Next Page Move to next sheet
Right ClickRight Click menu

Show Right click menu

Context menu

Show context menu

 Display right click menu
Autocorrect optionsOption button To open Autocorrect Options, if AutoCorrect button Options is displayed
Paste optionsOptions button To display paste option
Insert optionsOptions button To display insert option if it avaiable
Autofill optionsOptions button To show Autofill actions if it available
Right one wordForward word

Forward one word

Go forward one word

Next word

Go right word

Control right

 Move one word to right if you’re in editing mode
Left one wordBack word

Back one word

Last word

Control Left

 Move one word to left if you’re in editing mode
Shift control right

Select next word

 To block to next word if you’re in editing mode.
Shift control left

Select last word

 To block a word to left if you’re in editing mode.
Shift control up To block upper cell
Shift control down To block below cell
File To open File menu
Insert to open Insert menu
Data To open Data menu
Format To open Format menu
Window To open Window menu
Help To open Help menu
Copy Copy selected cell
Paste Paste copied content

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