Speaking to Outlook


If you want to talk directly to somebody, pick up an old fashioned telephone. But if you want to talk to Outlook as a method of entering contents in an e-mail or dialog box field, you can do that by using the Tablet PC Speech feature.

Speech allows you to enter text or to speak commands, such as Save and Print. Refer to Chapter 6 for more details about using Speech features, but here's a basic rundown of how you use Speech to enter text in Outlook.

To enter content by dictating with the Speech feature, follow these steps, using (as usual) pen taps to do the needed clicks:

  1. Open Outlook and place your insertion point in an e-mail form or in a task, appointment, or contact dialog box field.

  2. Click the Input Panel icon to open it.

    The Input Panel opens.

  3. Choose ToolsðSpeech.

    A check mark appears next to Speech to indicate it is active; a panel that includes a Commands and a Dictation button appears at the top of the Input Panel.

  4. Click the Dictation button.

    The Speech area of the Input Panel displays the word Listening, as shown in Figure 12-8. (If you say something that Speech can't recognize, then Listening changes to What Was That?)

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    Figure 12-8: Now it's listening to you.

  5. Begin speaking into the microphone.

    If the Speech area of the Input Panel displays the words What Was That?, you have to repeat what you said, perhaps louder, more slowly, or more directly into the microphone.

  6. Continue speaking into your microphone.

    Add 'speaking' punctuation (such as periods and commas) where appropriate, as outlined in Chapter 6.

  7. After you're finished, tap the Dictation button in the Speech area of the Input Panel once again.

    Doing so turns Speech off.




Tablet PCs for Dummies
Tablet PCs for Dummies
ISBN: 0764526472
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 139

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