WSR Macro that emulates Dragon's Dictation Box
WSR (Windows™ Speech Recognition), free in any version of the Microsoft Vista operating system, is slowly catching up to the features in Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I believe, beginning in version 7 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the "Show Dictation Box," feature was introduced. This allowed you to dictate into a nonstandard application and when finished, just say, "Transfer," to paste the text into the application you are working within.
Using the free, SpeechMacros program or the feature rich $15.99 WSRToolkit, you can now emulate the exact same thing. Below my name is the macro written by Brad T, that accomplishes this. Just paste it into the WSRToolkit's Macro Editor tab and save it as, "Open Dictation Window."
Marty Markoe
MyMSSpeech
The MSSpeech-Forum
<speechMacros>
<!-- Open Dictation Window -->
<command>
<listenFor>open dictation window</listenFor>
<run command="notepad.exe" params=""/>
</command>
<!-- post dictation -->
<command>
<listenFor>post dictation</listenFor>
<sendKeys>{{CTRL}}a</sendKeys>
<waitFor seconds=".25"/>
<sendKeys>{{CTRL}}c</sendKeys>
<waitFor seconds=".25"/>
<switchToApp windowTitleContains="WritePad"/>
<waitFor seconds=".5"/>
<sendKeys>{{CTRL}}v</sendKeys>
</command>
</speechMacros>
