Set up microphone
Proper set up of your microphone will make your speech recognition interaction more effective.
Mouse actionsKeyboard actions
1On the
Start menu, select:
- Control Panel.
- Ease of Access.
- Speech Recognition.
Display the
Start menu by pressing the Windows logo key

, then select.
- Control Panel by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Ease of Access by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
- Speech Recognition Options by pressing the arrow keys, then ENTER.
2In
Configure your Speech Recognition experience, select:
In
Configure your Speech Recognition experience, select:
- Set up microphone by pressing ALT+M.
3In the
Microphone Setup Wizard:
- Select the type of microphone you will use for Speech Recognition.
- Select Next.Read about and adjust your microphone as directed.
- Select Next.Read the text to adjust the microphone volume.
- Select Next.
- Select Finish to complete the wizard.
In the
Microphone Setup Wizard:
- Select the type of microphone you will use for Speech Recognition by pressing TAB.
- Select Next by pressing ALT+N.Read about and adjust your microphone as directed.
- Select Next by pressing ALT+N.Read the text to adjust the microphone volume.
- Select Next by pressing ALT+N.
- Select Finish by pressing TAB, then ENTER to complete the wizard.
- ENTER to complete the wizard.
More Speech Recognition Tutorials
Tip
To get a list of keybrd shortcuts for Speech Recognition, just right-click the Speech Recognition UI (bar with microphone button), when Speech Recognition is turned on, and select
Open Speech Reference Card.


