ACTIONS

in SpeechToText Pro
CONTROLLING TEXT PRESENTATION USING YOUR VOICE
INTRODUCTION
An Action is a voice command for modifying text. You can use Actions to
select and correct text, delete it, enclose it in punctuation, change its
capitalization rules, and much more. Thanks to Actions, you can control all
aspects of text presentation with your voice so that you do not have to use
the keyboard and mouse!

SpeechToText Pro offers 45 Actions. To see the full listing, click the
Actions button and click on the Actions List expandable dropdown. Actions
are grouped by similarity, under category titles in bold, red letters. To learn
more about a specific item in the dropdown, hover your mouse over it or
press it gently on a touch screen. This will cause a tooltip with helpful
information on the Action, to pop into view.

To put an Action into use, say it in the beginning of your spoken statement
and follow it with the words you want it to act upon. If the words exist in
your content, the last occurrence of those words in your content will be
affected. If they don’t exist, they will be appended to your content,
modified by the Action.

Begin by clicking the Speak button, near the lower left corner, and say
verbatim “Every day in every way comma things are getting better comma
better and better full stop”. This will produce…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.
SELECTION
Selection is important because through selection, text can be identified for
correction or modification. The selection-related Actions in SpeechToText
Pro permit for unrestricted flexibility. It is easy to select words, phrases,
sentences, segments of words, or individual characters. Be sure to say the
statements within the double quotes, to familiarize yourself with
SpeechToText Pro’s Actions…

Navigating across logical units

Saying “Select better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select previous” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select next” [Pause] “Select next” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select last word” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select previous” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select next” [Pause] “Select next” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select last sentence” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.
And if there was more than one sentences, you could use “Select previous”
and “Select next” on sentences too, of course.

Selecting a range

Saying “Select from every until getting” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select things” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select the next three” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select the previous two” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Selecting small segments

Saying “Select things” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Retreat right three” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Retreat left two” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Expand left ten” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Expand right eighteen” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.
Saying “Spell select G S whitespace A” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select comma” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select previous” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

As you see, it’s super-simple to select any segment of text down to an

individual character. If text is selected and you pronounce words, the words
will replace the selected text. If text is selected and you pronounce one or
more Action voice commands, they will modify the selected text. If text is
selected and you pronounce one or more Action voice commands, as well
as words, the modified words due to the voice commands will replace
whatever was selected.
User-defined Voice Commands
Suppose you would rather say “Choose” instead of “Select”. (You can
replace the default voice command with a word you prefer.)

To accomplish this, select the targeted Action (in this case the ‘Select’
Action), and right-click on it or if you are on a touch screen press down on
it. This will bring into display the Existing Commands window which has
three sections: 1. The Assigned Commands dropdown; 2. The ‘Enter new
command’ text box; 3. The ‘Save Action command’ button.

To assign a new command to the Action, type it in the ‘Enter new

command’ box and click the ‘Save Action command’ button.

To delete a command from an Action, click to expand the Assigned

Commands dropdown, right-click or press down on it, and click the ‘Delete
command?’ button that pops into view.

Whenever the app misunderstands a voice command, add the

misunderstood command to the Action. For example, suppose you say
“Round bracket” but the app hears “brown bracket”. (The misinterpreted
voice command will display in the green status bar at the bottom of the app
window.) In this case, simply add ‘brown bracket’ to the ‘Round bracket’
Action. This way, next time you say “round bracket” but the app thinks you
said “brown bracket”, it will still execute the desired Action.
DELETING
This section demonstrates the delete-related Action voice commands, on
the original sentence.

Saying “Delete better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and.

Saying “Delete last word” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better.

Saying “Delete ever way comma things” results in…

Every day in are getting better, better.

Saying “Delete punctuation” results in…

Every day in are getting better, better

Saying “Delete punctuation” again, results in…

Every day in are getting better better

Saying “Delete whitespace” results in…

Every day in are getting betterbetter

(You may have to say this command twice as there is often a whitespace at
the sentence end.)

Say “Delete last sentence”.

Say “Undo”.

Say “Delete everything” and click ‘Yes’.

LETTER CASE
This section demonstrates Action voice commands that control the case of
letters.

Once again, say verbatim “Every day in every way comma things are
getting better comma better and better full stop” to produce…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Uppercase better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and
BETTER.

Saying “Lowercase better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Capitalize better and better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, Better And
Better.

Saying “Select better and better” [Pause] “Lowercase” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

(First selecting text and then stating an Action is a slightly longer

alternative to stating the Action, followed by the words of the text.)

Saying “Alternate oh yes comma this is true exclamation mark” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.
OH yEs, tHiS iS tRuE!

Saying “Delete last sentence” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.
Saying “Uppercase every way” results in…

Every day in EVERY WAY, things are getting better, better and
better.

Say “Delete everything” and click ‘Yes’.

PUNCTUATION
Say “Every day in every way comma things are getting better comma
better and better full stop” to produce…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Round bracket better and better” results in…

Every day in every way, things are getting better, (better and
better).

Saying “Double quote single quote round bracket square bracket curly
brace emphasize every way” results in…

Every day in *{[(‘”every way”’)]}*, things are getting better,

(better and better).

Saying “Capitalize hyphenate better and better” results in…

Every day in *{[(‘”every way”’)]}*, things are getting better,

(Better-And-Better).

Say “Delete everything” and click ‘Yes’.

OTHER ACTIONS
Once again, say “Every day in ever way comma things are getting better
comma better and better full stop” to produce..

Every day in every way, things are getting better, better and better.

Saying “Select last sentence” [Pause] “Join” results in…

Everydayineveryway, thingsaregettingbetter, betterandbetter.

Say “Undo” to revert to the original sentence.

Saying “Select things” [Pause] “Acronymize” results in…

Every day in every way, T.H.I.N.G.S. are getting better, better and
better.

(You could also have said “Acronymize things”.)

Say “Undo” to revert to the original sentence.

Saying “Select last sentence” [Pause] “Reverse” results in…

Retteb dna retteb, retteb, gnitteg era sgniht, yaw yreve ni yad
Yreve.
RICH TEXT
The ‘Rich Text’ Action voice commands wear HTML-like tags around text to
make it suitable for Rich Text viewing, saving and printing.

Saying “Title uppercase a brief history” results in…

<h1>A BRIEF HISTORY </h1>

Saying “Subtitle capitalize of time” results in…

<h2>Of Time</h2>

Saying “Heading capitalize an explanation of the universe” results in…

<h3>An Explanation Of The Universe</h3>

(This will all make sense shortly.)

Say “Now I am going to produce some filler text for illustration purposes
full stop” to produce…

Now I am going to produce some filler text for illustration

purposes.

Lastly, say “Bold filler text” to obtain…

Now I am going to produce some <b>filler text</b> for illustration

purposes.

Now move the switch at the top middle of the Editor from the Plain Text
position to the Rich Text one.

If you click the RTF Save button, your content will save as an RTF file which
is a type of format that can be opened by Microsoft Word.

If you click the ‘Print or Save as PDF’ button, you will be able to either send
your content to a printer or save it as a PDF file.
Tip: It is recommended to leave RTF formatting (that is, using the ‘Rich
Text’ Actions) as the last task. The best practice is to produce content in
Text mode, or import it from an external text file using the Open button,
and then add formatting to that text through the use of ‘Rich Text’ Action
voice commands.
FINAL WORD
SpeechToText Pro offers 45 Action voice commands that empower the
user with full control over all aspects of text presentation. The full list of
Actions can be viewed by clicking the Actions button and clicking the
Actions List dropdown. Hovering over or pressing gently on an Action item
triggers a tooltip with helpful information about the Action.

Words that are not part of the vocabulary can be spelled using the 'Spell'
Action. This adds them to the vocabulary, so next time they can be
pronounced instead of spelled. If the word is difficult to pronounce, or has
non-letter characters, it can be turned into a Hotkey.

The Actions under the Casing, Punctuation, Miscellaneous and Rich Text
categories can be used on new text, existing text or selected text. The
Actions under Selection and Editing can only be used on existing text, not
new text. (New text can’t be selected or deleted.)

SpeechToText Pro is strong on selection-related Actions. It is easy to

select words, phrases, sentences, and any segment of text within a word or
spanning multiple words.

Although an Action has a default voice command, the user can define their
own voice commands by right-clicking or pressing down gently on an
Action. This way, the command “Select” can be replaced with "Choose".
Misinterpreted voice commands, displayed in the status bar, can be added
to the list of existing commands, to increase the accuracy of an Action.

Conversion from speech into text is never perfect. Thanks to the Actions
feature of SpeechToText Pro, not only is it possible to generate content
that is 100% accurate with ease, it is also intuitive, and hands-free.