How Do I Stop Speech-to-text functions in non Office Products?

[Alan3]

When I use Office's Speech Recognition funtions to type text into a Word
document, it also types text into other, non-Office products, that I'm using
when Word is running. I was looking at a stock chart (stock market) today
while narrating a paper I'm doing on stock analysis, and evey time I put my
mouse on the stock chart, the text would begin showing up on the chart (a
non-Microsoft product). It seems that the text shows up on which ever window
is active. How do I keep the text on the Word document only and still use my
mouse for other activities?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Alan,

The MS Office dictation feature uses the MS Windows Speech Engine and a number of apps support that speech engine and will continue
to work in whichever supported app has the 'focus' (active window). If your keyboard or microphone don't have a 'mute' button (not
the one for the speakers headphones <g>) you can use the Microphone button on the Office 'Speech' toolbar (Tools=>Speech in Word) to
turn it off and on.

If you have activated the Language Bar through Tools=>Speech in Word and set it to 'float' basically it should appear over any app
that supports the dictation and will not appear if the app doesn't support it.

For example, If Speech is active, the dictation toolbar appears and is highlighted over Outlook Express when you start composing a
message, but doesn't appear when in Outlook Express reading in the preview pane.

If you prefer not to have the toolbar float you can click the minimize button at the top right of the toolbar and, if the settings
for the language bar (options) are selected for showing language bar settings in the notification tray in Windows then the
microphone icon will appear/not appear in the tray when dictation is active in a particular Word window and you can use that icon to
turn the microphone on/off.

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| When I use Office's Speech Recognition funtions to type text into a
| Word document, it also types text into other, non-Office products,
| that I'm using when Word is running. I was looking at a stock chart
| (stock market) today while narrating a paper I'm doing on stock
| analysis, and evey time I put my mouse on the stock chart, the text
| would begin showing up on the chart (a non-Microsoft product). It
| seems that the text shows up on which ever window is active. How do
| I keep the text on the Word document only and still use my mouse for
| other activities? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Alan3]

Thanks for responding, Bob. Let me see if I understood what you said. If I
move the langauge bar to the task bar at the bottom of the screen, I should
be able to work on other screens without Speech typing text in those
applications? I have a mute button on my mic, but I want to continue
talking (and writing to the word document) while I'm actively working in
another application. I'm writing an instruction paper and it is important
that I use the other application while dictating to Word. Thanks.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Alan,

If your mouse has, for example, given focus to a Window other than Word then the dictation input follows to that Window (i.e. it's
not Word only/Word specific).

If you're looking at a couple of other windows arranged on your desktop but you still have the typing cursor/ibar active in Word
then you could continue to dictate/type in Word (i.e. the dictation feature is available to supplement/replace typing in Word, nor
severable).

The language bar, either floating or with icons set to appear in the Windows Notification area would only be an indicator to you
that dictation is available in another app had the focus after you selected it to be the active Window.

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| Thanks for responding, Bob. Let me see if I understood what you
| said. If I
| move the langauge bar to the task bar at the bottom of the screen, I
| should
| be able to work on other screens without Speech typing text in those
| applications? I have a mute button on my mic, but I want to continue
| talking (and writing to the word document) while I'm actively working
| in
| another application. I'm writing an instruction paper and it is
| important
| that I use the other application while dictating to Word. Thanks. >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx