Start Recognition & Dictation Button

Start Recognition Button

This button is meant for enabling IVOS to receive voice commands. To start issuing commands the Start Recognition button is pressed. The microphone icon is enabled when the user is talking and changes to dissabled when no voice commands are being received. Once the user presses the Start Recognition button, the button changes to the Stop Recognition and the icon present is displayed as enabled to indicate that the application is ready to receive voice input and hence the user can start talking. The above state indicates that the application is currently active and listening for voice input from the user. The user has to press the button once again to deactivate the application from listening.

Alternatively user may click microphone icon or use pop-up menu available from IVOS system tray icon to toggle recognition state of the application.

Dictation Button

The application can be switched to the dictation mode by the pressing of this button or by saying "dictation". In the dictation mode the words spoken by the user is displayed in the text region of the active application. The application at any time can run only in the dictation mode or in the command mode. Therefore only one of the two buttons can be selected at a time. When the other button is selected the previously selected button is automatically deselected. The application operates in the dictation mode till the dictation button remains in a pressed state. The user can change from the dictation mode by either pressing the dictation button again or by pressing the command button or by saying "command", which in turn disables the dictation button.

Alternatively user may use pop-up menu available from IVOS system tray icon to change recognition mode of the application.