Windows 8 voice commands

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Note	Secret weapon = autohotkey

Start

Open the Start screen

Cancel

Cancel the current action or dialog

Start/stop listening

Turn on/off listening mode

Move speech recognition

Move the Speech Recognition microphone bar

Minimize speech recognition

Minimize the microphone bar

Keys

Press keyboard key; Press a; Press capital b; Press Shift plus a; Press Ctrl plus a

Press any key on the keyboard ^[1]

Delete; Backspace; Enter; Page Up; Page Down; Home; End; Tab

Press certain keyboard keys without saying "press" first

Charms

Press Windows C

Open the charms bar

Press Windows Q

Open the Search charm

Press Windows F

Open the Search charm to search files

Press Windows H

Open the Share charm

Press Windows I

Open the Settings charm

Press Windows K

Open the Devices charm

Press Windows O

Lock the screen orientation (portrait or landscape)

Press Windows Q

Open the Search charm to search everywhere or within an open app (if the app supports app search)

Press Windows S

Open the Search charm to search Windows and the web

Press Windows W

Open the Search charm to search settings

Press Windows Z

Show the commands available in the app

Apps

Note	Keep in mind Windows Z contextual info. Also: say what you want to do. For example, change to Celsius in the Weather app. Use an app

Apps

Show all apps (after Start)

Click File; Start; View

Select any item by its name

Click Recycle Bin; Click Computer; Click file name

Select any item or icon

Double-click Recycle Bin; Double-click Computer; Double-click file name

Double tap or double-click any item

Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application

Switch to an open app

Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll left; Scroll right

Scroll in one direction

References

What can I say?

Show a list of applicable commands

Refresh speech commands

Update the list of speech commands that are currently available

How do I do something?

View Windows Help and Support content about specific tasks ^[2]

Dictation

New paragraph; New line

Insert a new paragraph or new line in a document

Select word

Select a word in a document

Correct word

Select a word and start to correct it

Tab

Insert a tab

Literal word

Insert the literal word for the next command (for example, you can insert the word "comma" instead of the punctuation mark)

Numeral number

Insert the numeral form of a number

No space

Don’t insert a space before the next word

Move cursor

Go to word

Put the cursor before a specific word

Go after word

Put the cursor after a specific word

Go to start of sentence

Go to the start of the sentence that the cursor is in

Go to start of paragraph

Go to the start of the paragraph that the cursor is in

Go to start of document

Go to the start of the document

Go to end of sentence

Go to the end of the sentence that the cursor is in

Go to end of paragraph

Go to the end of the paragraph that the cursor is in

Go to end of document

Go to the end of the current document

Selections

Select word

Select the word in the current document

Select word range; Select word through word

Select the word range in the current document

Select all

Select all text in the current document

Select previous 20 words; Select previous 10 words

Select a number of words before the location of the cursor

Select next 20 words; Select next 10 words

Select a number of words after the location of the cursor

Select that

Select the last text you dictated

Clear selection

Clear the selection on the screen

Casing

Caps word

Capitalize the first letter of the word

All caps word

Capitalize all the letters of the word

No caps word

Make all the letters in the word lowercase

Change next 10 words to uppercase

Change the next number of words to uppercase

Change next 10 words to lowercase

Change the next number of words to lowercase

Deletions

Delete word

Select and delete specific words

Delete previous sentence

Delete the previous sentence

Delete next sentence

Delete the next sentence

Delete previous paragraph

Delete the previous paragraph

Delete next paragraph

Delete the next paragraph

Delete that

Delete the selected or last dictated text

Literals

All by name e.g.

, Comma

; Semicolon

. Period; Dot; Decimal point

: Colon

“ Open double quote; Open quote

” Close double quote; Close quote; Close inverted commas

' Apostrophe

‘ Open single quote

’ Close single quote

> Greater than sign

< Less than sign

/ Forward slash

\ Backslash

~ Tilde

@ At sign

! Exclamation mark; Exclamation point

? Question mark

# Number sign; Pound sign

$ Dollar sign

% Percent sign

^ Caret

( Open parenthesis; Open paren

) Close parenthesis; Close paren

_ Underscore

- Hyphen; Minus sign; Dash

– En dash

— Em dash

= Equal sign

+ Plus sign

{ Open brace; Open curly bracket

} Close brace; Close curly bracket

[ Open bracket; Open square bracket

] Close bracket; Close square bracket

| Vertical bar

:-) Smiley face

:-( Frowny face

;-) Winky face

™ Trademark sign

¾ Three quarter sign

¼ One quarter sign

½ One half sign

£ Pound sterling sign

& Ampersand; And sign

* Asterisk

Double slash

` Back quote

< Open angle bracket

> Close angle bracket

± Plus or minus sign

« Open angle quote

» Close angle quote

× Multiplication sign

÷ Division sign

¢ Cent sign

¥ Yen sign

§ Section sign

© Copyright sign

® Registered sign, Registered trademark sign

° Degree sign

¶ Paragraph sign

… Ellipsis; Dot dot dot

ƒ Function sign

Operations

Open an app

Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open app name

Switch to an open app

Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to app name; Switch application

Close an app

Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents

Minimize

Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Documents

Maximize

Maximize that; Maximize Paint; Maximize Documents

Restore

Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Documents

Cut

Cut that; Cut

Copy

Copy that; Copy

Paste

Paste

Delete

Delete that; Delete

Undo

Undo that; Scratch that; Undo

Scroll in one direction

Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll right; Scroll left

Scroll an exact distance in pages

Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages

Scroll an exact distance in other units

Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7

Go to a field in a form or an app

Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to cc

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1. You can also use the ICAO\NATO phonetic alphabet to say the keyboard keys to press. For example, you can say "press alpha" to press "a" or "press bravo" to press "b."

2. For example, say “How do I install a printer?” and a list of Help topics is returned.