The most common way you’ll use speech recognition is for dictating a document. This process involves:

1.        Starting your word processing application.

2.        Opening an existing document or creating a new document.

3.        Dictating the body of the document.

4.        Saving the document and exiting your word processing application.

You can use speech recognition to perform these tasks in Microsoft Office Word or WordPad by following these steps:

1.        If speech recognition is not running, start it. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Accessories. Click Ease Of Access, and then click Speech Recognition.

2.        Say “Start Listening.”

3.        Say “Open Word” or “Open WordPad” as appropriate.

4.        Start dictating. Use the spoken-word commands for punctuation marks and special characters as necessary. For example, to insert a comma, you say “comma.” To end a sentence with a period, you say “period.”

5.        To correct mistakes, say “correct” and the word that the computer typed by mistake. Select the correct word from the list offered, or say the correct word again. For example, if the computer misrecognized rode as strode, say “correct rode,” and then select the right word from the list or say the word “strode” again.