Various usability issues with SR in Vista

Hello,
I have started using a voice recognition in Vista because I have
tendinitis in both hands, and cannot use them.  Most things work very
well.  Thank you for adding this to Vista!  I have some questions and/
or suggestions:

Windows Explorer
- How do you select multiple files, as when using the shift and
control key combined with left clicking the mouse?  The same goes for
selecting multiple messages in Windows Mail.
- How do you click an item and drag it into another?

Windows Mail
- Pressing "To"-button when composing mail does not work with
"show
numbers".
- In the dialog for selecting contacts, the "show numbers" buttons
for
the contacts are too long.

Windows Live Messenger
- Links in conversations do not show with "show numbers".
- The text input box in conversations does not allow editing text with
the voice recognition functionality.  Maybe there could be an option
to use a regular text input box.  People with disabilities could just
use old school ASCII smileys :-)

Programming
- I have not found an editor or IDE which I can use with speech
recognition, except Notepad and Wordpad.  I probably download and
tested 10 different editors yesterday.  The problem is that they all
use a non standard input text field.  This also goes for Visual Studio
and Eclipse.  Is there anybody out there programming using speech
recognition in Windows Vista?
- Is there any way to stop the SR from inserting space before "(" and
"[" by default, and capsing words at all?
- You may adjust the number of spaces inserted after a ".", but the
only choices are one and two.

In general
- It should the possible to create a profile without a base language,
and build it from scratch yourself.
- Allowing speech recognition to learn from reading my e-mail
generates a lot of garbage, as people have bad spelling, and emails
often contain nonsensical words.  It would be nice if I could just
feed it a list of words from a text file.
- It would be very nice if you had a fast way to switch between
profiles, by only speaking a few commands.  I would love to have one
profile for English text, one for my native tongue, one for C++, one
for Java, and be able to configure them properly.

Thanks for your feedback.
Regarding using Speech Recognition in Visual Studio, the feature is disabled 
by default to prevent certain debugging scenarios from affecting Speech 
Recognition. We also found that it was not very useful for developers to use 
Speech in IDE. However, if you want to enable Speech for Visual Studio, you 
can still do so.

Open the registry editor (regedit.exe), and go to 
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Preferences\AppCompatDisableMSAA 
key, you'll see a value entry "devenv.exe". Delete that value entry
will 
allow Speech Recognition to be used in Visual Studio.

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<nils.grimsmo@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:695cae1b-51fa-41ca-8293-f58eaed40257@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> I have started using a voice recognition in Vista because I have
> tendinitis in both hands, and cannot use them.  Most things work very
> well.  Thank you for adding this to Vista!  I have some questions and/
> or suggestions:
>
> Windows Explorer
> - How do you select multiple files, as when using the shift and
> control key combined with left clicking the mouse?  The same goes for
> selecting multiple messages in Windows Mail.
> - How do you click an item and drag it into another?
>
> Windows Mail
> - Pressing "To"-button when composing mail does not work with
"show
> numbers".
> - In the dialog for selecting contacts, the "show numbers"
buttons for
> the contacts are too long.
>
> Windows Live Messenger
> - Links in conversations do not show with "show numbers".
> - The text input box in conversations does not allow editing text with
> the voice recognition functionality.  Maybe there could be an option
> to use a regular text input box.  People with disabilities could just
> use old school ASCII smileys :-)
>
> Programming
> - I have not found an editor or IDE which I can use with speech
> recognition, except Notepad and Wordpad.  I probably download and
> tested 10 different editors yesterday.  The problem is that they all
> use a non standard input text field.  This also goes for Visual Studio
> and Eclipse.  Is there anybody out there programming using speech
> recognition in Windows Vista?
> - Is there any way to stop the SR from inserting space before "("
and
> "[" by default, and capsing words at all?
> - You may adjust the number of spaces inserted after a ".", but
the
> only choices are one and two.
>
> In general
> - It should the possible to create a profile without a base language,
> and build it from scratch yourself.
> - Allowing speech recognition to learn from reading my e-mail
> generates a lot of garbage, as people have bad spelling, and emails
> often contain nonsensical words.  It would be nice if I could just
> feed it a list of words from a text file.
> - It would be very nice if you had a fast way to switch between
> profiles, by only speaking a few commands.  I would love to have one
> profile for English text, one for my native tongue, one for C++, one
> for Java, and be able to configure them properly.
>
>
> Klem fra Nils 

On Dec 2, 7:30 pm, "Hieu Nguyen [Microsoft]"
<ntrh...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback.
> Regarding using Speech Recognition in Visual Studio, the feature is
disabled
> by default to prevent certain debugging scenarios from affecting Speech
> Recognition. We also found that it was not very useful for developers to
use
> Speech in IDE. However, if you want to enable Speech for Visual Studio,
you
> can still do so.
>
> Open the registry editor (regedit.exe), and go to
>
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Preferences\AppCompatDisableMSAA
> key, you'll see a value entry "devenv.exe". Delete that value
entry will
> allow Speech Recognition to be used in Visual Studio.

Thank you for the tip! But as you comment, Visual Studio still isn't
usable for coding, as editing using speech recognition is not possible
in the code window. Wordpad is the only option I have found. I guess I
still have to say "new line, press tab three times" :-)

Klem fra Nils

> <nils.grim...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:695cae1b-51fa-41ca-8293-f58eaed40257@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I have started using a voice recognition in Vista because I have
> > tendinitis in both hands, and cannot use them.  Most things work very
> > well.  Thank you for adding this to Vista!  I have some questions
and/
> > or suggestions:
>
> > Windows Explorer
> > - How do you select multiple files, as when using the shift and
> > control key combined with left clicking the mouse?  The same goes for
> > selecting multiple messages in Windows Mail.
> > - How do you click an item and drag it into another?
>
> > Windows Mail
> > - Pressing "To"-button when composing mail does not work
with "show
> > numbers".
> > - In the dialog for selecting contacts, the "show numbers"
buttons for
> > the contacts are too long.
>
> > Windows Live Messenger
> > - Links in conversations do not show with "show numbers".
> > - The text input box in conversations does not allow editing text
with
> > the voice recognition functionality.  Maybe there could be an option
> > to use a regular text input box.  People with disabilities could just
> > use old school ASCII smileys :-)
>
> > Programming
> > - I have not found an editor or IDE which I can use with speech
> > recognition, except Notepad and Wordpad.  I probably download and
> > tested 10 different editors yesterday.  The problem is that they all
> > use a non standard input text field.  This also goes for Visual
Studio
> > and Eclipse.  Is there anybody out there programming using speech
> > recognition in Windows Vista?
> > - Is there any way to stop the SR from inserting space before
"(" and
> > "[" by default, and capsing words at all?
> > - You may adjust the number of spaces inserted after a ".",
but the
> > only choices are one and two.
>
> > In general
> > - It should the possible to create a profile without a base language,
> > and build it from scratch yourself.
> > - Allowing speech recognition to learn from reading my e-mail
> > generates a lot of garbage, as people have bad spelling, and emails
> > often contain nonsensical words.  It would be nice if I could just
> > feed it a list of words from a text file.
> > - It would be very nice if you had a fast way to switch between
> > profiles, by only speaking a few commands.  I would love to have one
> > profile for English text, one for my native tongue, one for C++, one
> > for Java, and be able to configure them properly.
>
> > Klem fra Nils- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -