Dictanote comes built-in with voice commands for common tasks like punctuation. Voice commands are available in 21 languages. Check out the full list of built-in voice commands.
With Dictanote Pro, you can create your own custom voice commands. Custom voice commands let you map a phrase to another phrase or command. It is a powerful feature that can use to correct common grammatical errors, avoid repetitive data entry, trigger commands, insert uncommon words, etc.
In this document, we will go over how to create custom voice commands, create voice commands that match within words, action commands, and finally conclude with some popular use cases for custom voice commands.
1) Creating a Custom Voice Command
Click the >_ Voice Commands button
A Voice Commands pop-up will open, click on Custom Commands
At the bottom of the pop-up, you should see a form to add a new command.
An example voice command to add is: "period" => "."
To add the above voice command, set Say This to period and To Insert This to .
This will result in a full stop (.) getting inserted every time you say period.
2) Matching within a Word
By default, voice commands do whole-word matching. If you have a command for the word "magic", it will only match "magic" but not "magical". To match both "magic" and "magical" using the phrase "magic", you need to check the match within the word option when creating the voice command.
3) Action Commands supported
Action commands are phrases that do not insert any text but accomplish a specific task. Dictanote supports the following action commands:
| <newline> | Insert a line break |
| <newparagraph> | Insert a paragraph break |
| <paste> | Paste text from the clipboard |
| <undo> | Undo the last text insertion |
| <capson> | Insert text in upper case going forward (behaves as caps lock on) |
| <capsoff> | Turns off <capson> |
| <capitalize> | Capitalize the next word |
| <stop> | Stop dictation |
| <copysel> | Copy selection to clipboard |
| <cutsel> | Cut selection to clipboard |
| <copynote> | Copy note to clipboard |
| <cutnote> | Cut note to clipboard |
| <lang:*> | Change language. Example <lang:es-ES> to change to Spanish (Spain) |
| <case:*> | Change dictation case. Example <case:uppercase> to use uppercase |
You can map any phrase to these commands. For example, you can map "next line" => "<newline>". Most of these actions are available in English by default. For other languages, you need to use custom voice commands to define them manually.
Some of the action commands are configurable. For example, you can add a voice command "spanish" => "<lang:es-ES>" to quickly change the dictation language to Spanish. Below we describe the 2 configurable action commands <lang:*> and <case::*>
1) <lang:*>: change dictation language
Use this action command to change the dictation language. Example:
use spanish => <lang:es-ES>
use english => <lang:en-US>
The command requires the language code of the language. In the example above, en-US in the language code for English (United States).
You can look up the language code for your language in the list of languages supported by Dictanote.
2) <case:*>: change dictation case
Dictanote supports transforming dictated text to a specific case. The five supported cases are default, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Sentence case, and Capitalize Each Word. Use this <case:*> action command to switch between them. Example:
uppercase => <case:upper>
Possible values are <case:default>, <case:lower>, <case:upper>, <case:sentence>, <case:capitalize> for default, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Sentence case, and Capitalize Each Word respectively
4) Common Use Cases
Here are some common use cases for custom voice commands:
1) Correct common dictation errors
For example, one user reported that due to her accent, when she says "new line" to insert a new line, it always gets dictated as "Uline". She can correct this error by adding a voice command mapping.
| uline | <newline> |
So the next time she says "new line", it will actually trigger the new line voice command.
2) Remove censorship for adult words
By default, the browser's speech-to-text engine will censor adult language words. You can use voice commands to reverse this. For example, you can map "f***" to "fuck" to reverse censorship of that word.
3) Avoid repetitive text entry using Templates
For example, a salesperson would add a voice command
| email signature | Thank you for purchasing from XYZ Store. Thanks, ABC |
Comments
16 comments
would you mind posting a screenshot of where the toolbar is located?
First, congrats for this extension. Does it have Portuguese pre-installed voice commands or do I have to create each one of them, for instance (coma = vírgula, etc.)?
I also have tried to use English voice commands amidst dictation in Portuguese and it didn't work.
Podia ter letra maiúscula depois do ponto. Tem como fazer?
Many of the popular ones like comma should be included, we are working on adding predefined language voice commands.
Capitalization works. For example: saying "i want to test full stop lets see if this gets capitalized" comes out as "I want to test. Let's see if this gets capitalized"
Unable to find the >_ button on the toolbar for setting extra voice commands...and must I toggle the 'mic' on and off between speaking? I thought there was an extra button to do that...?
Como faço para anexar o audio ou video que tenho guardado no ambiente de trabalho, por exemplo?
When I use open/close parentheses, a space is added between the word(s) and the parenthesis signs.
Double punctuation characters should not necessarily be separated by a space. Can this be user-defined?
There are a couple things I wonder about: first, how can i make sure the sentence will start with a capitalized word or what command do I need know to enable this? (it doesn't always do this). next, why is that when i am dictating, some words in the middle of the sentence get capitalized? (is this related to my voice inflection or loudness of my voice when speaking?) Lastly, I find that when I end a sentence or just pause after leaving a period or comma and am gathering my thoughts before continuing, the cursor will move to the left of the last punctuation mark instead of staying on the end (after the comma or period)...?
thanks!
Mark
I can ' t set up VOICE command in Japanese.
I can ' t set up VOICE command in arabic, those already setup did not work and when I set one "custom" it did not work too. please help
Tarek
What about if I need to press the backspace button?
The word <undo> just enters what looks like coding but doesn't actually <undo> anything.
Bonjour
peut-on corriger des erreurs de reconnaissance pour qu'elles ne se reproduisent pas
(can we correct recognition errors so that they do not recur)
merci
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There is a bug with the Hungarian version, not really of bug, it's because of the language. I am talking about brackets and braces, we call them Square brackets and Buckle brackets.
szögletes zárójel [ = Square bracket
szögletes zárójel bezár ] = Square bracket close - Hungarian literal translation for the Close square bracket command (and, it will indeed close a parenthesis (the simple, round bracket) , because it hears the command zárójel bezár )
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I am sure it will be a very nice fix for the Hungarian programmers, the lazy type :)
Love it it works better than almost any of the other apps out there like it actually hears what you're saying
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