Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

Controlling a PC with Voice Commands

The guiding principle for working with windows, dialog boxes, menus, and other on-screen objects is simple: "Say what you see." So, for example, you can say "Start," and Windows Speech Recognition will display the Start menu. You can then say "All Programs" to open that menu, and continue working your way to the program you want by saying the names of objects and menu items you see on the screen. If you know the name of the program you want to open, you can skip that navigation and just say "Open program."

You can also "click what you see" (or double-click or right-click). If a window has menus available, you can speak the names of those menus ("File," "Open") just as if you were clicking them.

If you can’t figure ...