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Save As (action) opens the Save As dialog box in the current program. Examples: "Save As"; "Save As First Line"; "Save As 3 Words"; "Save As jpeg". See Also: Open, Path, Save To
Save To (action) saves the current file to a particular folder or drive. Examples: "Save To A Drive"; "Save To My Documents". See Also: Open, Path, Save As
Screen (Down) (object) indicates a screen of content. 1. selects a screen relative to its position in a document. Examples: "Screen 10" moves the cursor to the beginning of the 10th screen of a document 2. Moves the cursor by screen. Examples: "1 Screen"; "3 Screen". See Also: Letter, Word, Line, Graph, 1-100. Note: Screen is distinct from Page; screen is a the screen's worth of information, while Page indicates a document page (also note that the speech use of Page is distinct from the Page Down key, which indicates a screen)
Scroll (object) refers to the vertical scroll bar 1. Places the vertical scroll bar using a scale of 1 to 100. Examples: "Scroll 50" scrolls to the middle of a document 2. Scrolls a number of units in one direction along a vertical scroll bar. Examples: "Scroll 6 Down"; "Scroll 30 Down"; "Scroll 10 Up" 3. Begins scrolling the cursor in a given direction. "Scroll Down"; "Scroll Up"; "Scroll Stop"; "Scroll Screen Up"; "Scroll Screen 5"; "Scroll Set" sets the default scroll speed, "Cursor Scroll". See Also: Across, Rewind, Set, 0-100
Seconds (object) the unit of time. Examples: "10 Seconds Time"; "40 Seconds Break". See Also: Minutes, Break, Time, Repeat
Select (action) selects, or highlights text. Note that selecting is usually apparent by context, making this an uncommon command word. Examples: "All Select"
Sentence (object) indicates a sentence 1. moves the cursor before a sentence relative to its position in a document. Examples: "Sentence 3" 2. moves the cursor by sentence relative to the original cursor position. Examples: "3 sentence" moves the cursor to the third sentence below the original cursor position, "1 Sentence" 3. used with ordinal numbers to select a sentence relative to other objects. Examples: "4th Sentence"; "2nd Sentence 1st Letter"; "Graph 3rd Sentence"; "2nd Sentence 1st Word 3 Words" 4. used without numbers to select the single sentence nearest the cursor. Examples: "This Sentence"; "Sentence Bold"; "Sentence Delete". See Also: Sentences, Sentence Up, Letter, Word, Line, Graph, Screen, Layer, 1-100, 1st-40th
Sentence Up (object) moves the cursor by sentence relative to the original cursor position. Examples: "3 Sentence Up" moves the cursor to the third sentence above the original cursor position, "1 Sentence" See Also: Sentence, Sentence Ups, Letter, Word, Line, Graph, Screen, Layer, 1-100
Sentence Ups (object) selects sentences to the left of the cursors. Plural even if only one sentence is being selected. Examples: "4 Sentence Ups"; "3 Sentence Ups Delete"; "2 2 Sentence Ups Cut"; "4 Sentence Ups Arial Bold". See Also: Sentence, Sentences, Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Lines, Line Ups, Graphs, Graph Ups, Screens, Screen Ups, Layer, Layer Ups, 1-100
Sentences (object) selects sentences to the right of the cursor. Plural even if only one sentence is being selected. Examples: "3 Sentences"; "2 Sentences Delete"; "2 1 Sentences Cut"; "4 Sentences Arial Bold". See Also: Sentence, Sentence Ups, Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Lines, Line Ups, Graphs, Graph Ups, Screens, Screen Ups, Layer, Layer Ups, 1-100
Set (action) refers to default speech command settings like speed or waiting. Examples: "Scroll Set" changes the default scroll speed, "Down Wait Set" changes the default wait speed in the "Down/Up 1-100 Wait 1-100" group of commands
Short (modifier) 1. distinguishes homophones, including symbols, numbers and abbreviations from their longer, written-out forms. Examples: "3 Short" returns "3" rather than "three"; "Star Short" returns "*" rather than "star"; "Versus Short" returns "vs." rather than "versus". Note that "0-9 Short" is sometimes used in the middle of a keystroke command to avoid ambiguity between the symbolic form and the value of a number. Example: 3 Down" moves the cursor down three lines vs. "3 Short Down"; which types "3", then moves the cursor down one line, vs. "Down 3 Long"; which types "three", then moves the cursor down one line 2. distinguishes the homophone that appears earlier in the alphabet of two homophones of the same length. Example: "Made Short" returns "made" rather than "maid" because "i" comes after "d" 3. distinguishes a one-word command from a written word. Note that the "Short" version that indicates a command is almost never used. Examples: "Enter Short" hits the enter key, "Backspace Short" hits the backspace key 4. distinguishes a commonly misrecognized command from a written word 5. reduces a selection by one character on each end. Examples: "open brace through close brace short" selects characters between braces but not the braces themselves. See Also: Long, Long 1-10, Short 1-10. (Note that in general, these modifiers are often not needed because speech recognition programs are relatively good at choosing the right word from context and will get even better over time. These are meant to give the user a sure way to say a word or command when context does not work well.)
Short 1-10 (modifier) 1. distinguishes homophones. Homophones are arranged from one to ten starting with shorter homophones, and, when homophones have the same number of letters, according to alphabetical order. Examples: "For Short 1" returns "For"; "For Short 2" returns "Fore"; and "For Short 3" returns "Four"; "Pair Short 1" returns "Pair"; "Pair Short 2" returns "Pare"; "Pair Short 3" returns "Pear" 2. reduces a selection by n characters on each side. Examples: "open brace through close brace short 2" selects from the second character after the open brace through the second character before the close brace. See Also: Long, Short, Long 1-10
Short All (modifier) returns a list of all a word's homophones, arranged in the order of the above command. Examples: "For Short All" returns "1. For, 2. Fore, 3. Four"; "Pair Short All" returns "1. Pair, 2. Pare 3. Pear". See Also Long All. Note that "Short All" is not functionally different from "Long All"
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Size (action) resizes a window. Examples: "Size 5 Up" drags the top border of a window up five units, making the window larger, "Size 7 Down" drags the top border of a window down seven units, making the window smaller, "Size 30 by 30" drags the top left-hand corner of a window to the 30 by 30 screen coordinates. See Also: Window, 0-100.9 by 0-100.9
Size 1-40 (action) refers to font size. Examples: "Line Size 9"; "Graph Size 8". See Also This
Small (action) opens a window or dialog box and sizes it one-quarter the screen size. Examples: "Open File Small"; "Open F Drive Small"; "Word Open Small". See Also: Window, Very Small, Medium, Big, Very Big
Sound (object) refers to boilerplate audio. Can be used with "Short"; "Long" and 1-100 to refer to different versions or sets of sounds. Examples: "Demo Sound"; "Fountain Sound Short"; "Fountain Sound Long". See Also: Long, Short, Address, Code, Email, Graphic, Number, Picture, Mix, Spreadsheet, Table, Template, Text, Web
Speech (object) refers to the speech engine. Examples: "Speech On"; "Speech Off". See Also Microphone
Spell (phrase mode) indicates that the rest of the phrase is a string of letters, numbers, and/or symbols, including "Space". Examples: "Spell r b b"; "Spell 2 4 #"; "Spell 2 h r". See Also: Spells, Letter, Number, Symbol
Spells (phrase mode) selects a string of characters, including letters, numbers, symbols and "Space". Plural even if only one character is being selected. Examples: "Spells d Number Sign"; "Spells 1 a Close Paren"; "Spells 1 Hyphen Space". See Also: Letters, Numbers, Spell, Symbols
Spreadsheet (object) refers to a boilerplate spreadsheet. Can be used with "Short"; "Long" and 1-100 to refer to different versions or sets of spreadsheets. Examples: "Demo Spreadsheet"; "Budget Spreadsheet Short"; "Budget Spreadsheet Long". See Also: Long, Short, Address, Code, Email, Graphic, Number, Picture, Mix, Sound, Table, Template, Text, Web
Stars PLACEHOLDER
Stay (action) 1. Leaves open a file or dialog box that closes by default. Example: "Cut To 1 Stay" 2. Preserves existing highlighting. Example: "Stay 3 Words" 3. Leaves the cursor in position in some move commands. Example: "Scroll 50 Stay". See Also: Close, Now
Start (modifier) denotes a starting rather than a finishing HTML tag. Example: "Bold Start". See Also Finish
Stop (action) stops action. Examples: "Media Stop" stops the default media player. See Also: Pause, Play
Symbol (phrase mode) puts computer into symbols-only mode for the duration of an utterance. Example: "Symbols Ampersand Slash Dot" returns "&/." Note that this is seldom used because symbols are usually recognized well. See Also: Number, Letter, Spell
Symbols (phrase mode) selects symbols to the right of the cursor. Example: "Symbols Ampersand Slash Dot" selects the next instance of "&/." See Also: Numbers, Letters, Spells
Synonym (phrase mode) brings up synonyms of the preceding word or set of words, including related programming terms. Examples: "Synonym Concise"; "Synonym Tiger"; "Synonym Sendkeys" would return a list including "SendSystemKeys". See Also: Define, Entry, List
Save As (action) opens the Save As dialog box in the current program. Examples: "Save As"; "Save As First Line"; "Save As 3 Words"; "Save As jpeg". See Also: Open, Path, Save To
Save To (action) saves the current file to a particular folder or drive. Examples: "Save To A Drive"; "Save To My Documents". See Also: Open, Path, Save As
Screen (Down) (object) indicates a screen of content. 1. selects a screen relative to its position in a document. Examples: "Screen 10" moves the cursor to the beginning of the 10th screen of a document 2. Moves the cursor by screen. Examples: "1 Screen"; "3 Screen". See Also: Letter, Word, Line, Graph, 1-100. Note: Screen is distinct from Page; screen is a the screen's worth of information, while Page indicates a document page (also note that the speech use of Page is distinct from the Page Down key, which indicates a screen)
Scroll (object) refers to the vertical scroll bar 1. Places the vertical scroll bar using a scale of 1 to 100. Examples: "Scroll 50" scrolls to the middle of a document 2. Scrolls a number of units in one direction along a vertical scroll bar. Examples: "Scroll 6 Down"; "Scroll 30 Down"; "Scroll 10 Up" 3. Begins scrolling the cursor in a given direction. "Scroll Down"; "Scroll Up"; "Scroll Stop"; "Scroll Screen Up"; "Scroll Screen 5"; "Scroll Set" sets the default scroll speed, "Cursor Scroll". See Also: Across, Rewind, Set, 0-100
Seconds (object) the unit of time. Examples: "10 Seconds Time"; "40 Seconds Break". See Also: Minutes, Break, Time, Repeat
Select (action) selects, or highlights text. Note that selecting is usually apparent by context, making this an uncommon command word. Examples: "All Select"
Sentence (object) indicates a sentence 1. moves the cursor before a sentence relative to its position in a document. Examples: "Sentence 3" 2. moves the cursor by sentence relative to the original cursor position. Examples: "3 sentence" moves the cursor to the third sentence below the original cursor position, "1 Sentence" 3. used with ordinal numbers to select a sentence relative to other objects. Examples: "4th Sentence"; "2nd Sentence 1st Letter"; "Graph 3rd Sentence"; "2nd Sentence 1st Word 3 Words" 4. used without numbers to select the single sentence nearest the cursor. Examples: "This Sentence"; "Sentence Bold"; "Sentence Delete". See Also: Sentences, Sentence Up, Letter, Word, Line, Graph, Screen, Layer, 1-100, 1st-40th
Sentence Up (object) moves the cursor by sentence relative to the original cursor position. Examples: "3 Sentence Up" moves the cursor to the third sentence above the original cursor position, "1 Sentence" See Also: Sentence, Sentence Ups, Letter, Word, Line, Graph, Screen, Layer, 1-100
Sentence Ups (object) selects sentences to the left of the cursors. Plural even if only one sentence is being selected. Examples: "4 Sentence Ups"; "3 Sentence Ups Delete"; "2 2 Sentence Ups Cut"; "4 Sentence Ups Arial Bold". See Also: Sentence, Sentences, Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Lines, Line Ups, Graphs, Graph Ups, Screens, Screen Ups, Layer, Layer Ups, 1-100
Sentences (object) selects sentences to the right of the cursor. Plural even if only one sentence is being selected. Examples: "3 Sentences"; "2 Sentences Delete"; "2 1 Sentences Cut"; "4 Sentences Arial Bold". See Also: Sentence, Sentence Ups, Rights, Lefts, Befores, Afters, Lines, Line Ups, Graphs, Graph Ups, Screens, Screen Ups, Layer, Layer Ups, 1-100
Set (action) refers to default speech command settings like speed or waiting. Examples: "Scroll Set" changes the default scroll speed, "Down Wait Set" changes the default wait speed in the "Down/Up 1-100 Wait 1-100" group of commands
Short (modifier) 1. distinguishes homophones, including symbols, numbers and abbreviations from their longer, written-out forms. Examples: "3 Short" returns "3" rather than "three"; "Star Short" returns "*" rather than "star"; "Versus Short" returns "vs." rather than "versus". Note that "0-9 Short" is sometimes used in the middle of a keystroke command to avoid ambiguity between the symbolic form and the value of a number. Example: 3 Down" moves the cursor down three lines vs. "3 Short Down"; which types "3", then moves the cursor down one line, vs. "Down 3 Long"; which types "three", then moves the cursor down one line 2. distinguishes the homophone that appears earlier in the alphabet of two homophones of the same length. Example: "Made Short" returns "made" rather than "maid" because "i" comes after "d" 3. distinguishes a one-word command from a written word. Note that the "Short" version that indicates a command is almost never used. Examples: "Enter Short" hits the enter key, "Backspace Short" hits the backspace key 4. distinguishes a commonly misrecognized command from a written word 5. reduces a selection by one character on each end. Examples: "open brace through close brace short" selects characters between braces but not the braces themselves. See Also: Long, Long 1-10, Short 1-10. (Note that in general, these modifiers are often not needed because speech recognition programs are relatively good at choosing the right word from context and will get even better over time. These are meant to give the user a sure way to say a word or command when context does not work well.)
Short 1-10 (modifier) 1. distinguishes homophones. Homophones are arranged from one to ten starting with shorter homophones, and, when homophones have the same number of letters, according to alphabetical order. Examples: "For Short 1" returns "For"; "For Short 2" returns "Fore"; and "For Short 3" returns "Four"; "Pair Short 1" returns "Pair"; "Pair Short 2" returns "Pare"; "Pair Short 3" returns "Pear" 2. reduces a selection by n characters on each side. Examples: "open brace through close brace short 2" selects from the second character after the open brace through the second character before the close brace. See Also: Long, Short, Long 1-10
Short All (modifier) returns a list of all a word's homophones, arranged in the order of the above command. Examples: "For Short All" returns "1. For, 2. Fore, 3. Four"; "Pair Short All" returns "1. Pair, 2. Pare 3. Pear". See Also Long All. Note that "Short All" is not functionally different from "Long All"
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Size (action) resizes a window. Examples: "Size 5 Up" drags the top border of a window up five units, making the window larger, "Size 7 Down" drags the top border of a window down seven units, making the window smaller, "Size 30 by 30" drags the top left-hand corner of a window to the 30 by 30 screen coordinates. See Also: Window, 0-100.9 by 0-100.9
Size 1-40 (action) refers to font size. Examples: "Line Size 9"; "Graph Size 8". See Also This
Small (action) opens a window or dialog box and sizes it one-quarter the screen size. Examples: "Open File Small"; "Open F Drive Small"; "Word Open Small". See Also: Window, Very Small, Medium, Big, Very Big
Sound (object) refers to boilerplate audio. Can be used with "Short"; "Long" and 1-100 to refer to different versions or sets of sounds. Examples: "Demo Sound"; "Fountain Sound Short"; "Fountain Sound Long". See Also: Long, Short, Address, Code, Email, Graphic, Number, Picture, Mix, Spreadsheet, Table, Template, Text, Web
Speech (object) refers to the speech engine. Examples: "Speech On"; "Speech Off". See Also Microphone
Spell (phrase mode) indicates that the rest of the phrase is a string of letters, numbers, and/or symbols, including "Space". Examples: "Spell r b b"; "Spell 2 4 #"; "Spell 2 h r". See Also: Spells, Letter, Number, Symbol
Spells (phrase mode) selects a string of characters, including letters, numbers, symbols and "Space". Plural even if only one character is being selected. Examples: "Spells d Number Sign"; "Spells 1 a Close Paren"; "Spells 1 Hyphen Space". See Also: Letters, Numbers, Spell, Symbols
Spreadsheet (object) refers to a boilerplate spreadsheet. Can be used with "Short"; "Long" and 1-100 to refer to different versions or sets of spreadsheets. Examples: "Demo Spreadsheet"; "Budget Spreadsheet Short"; "Budget Spreadsheet Long". See Also: Long, Short, Address, Code, Email, Graphic, Number, Picture, Mix, Sound, Table, Template, Text, Web
Stars PLACEHOLDER
Stay (action) 1. Leaves open a file or dialog box that closes by default. Example: "Cut To 1 Stay" 2. Preserves existing highlighting. Example: "Stay 3 Words" 3. Leaves the cursor in position in some move commands. Example: "Scroll 50 Stay". See Also: Close, Now
Start (modifier) denotes a starting rather than a finishing HTML tag. Example: "Bold Start". See Also Finish
Stop (action) stops action. Examples: "Media Stop" stops the default media player. See Also: Pause, Play
Symbol (phrase mode) puts computer into symbols-only mode for the duration of an utterance. Example: "Symbols Ampersand Slash Dot" returns "&/." Note that this is seldom used because symbols are usually recognized well. See Also: Number, Letter, Spell
Symbols (phrase mode) selects symbols to the right of the cursor. Example: "Symbols Ampersand Slash Dot" selects the next instance of "&/." See Also: Numbers, Letters, Spells
Synonym (phrase mode) brings up synonyms of the preceding word or set of words, including related programming terms. Examples: "Synonym Concise"; "Synonym Tiger"; "Synonym Sendkeys" would return a list including "SendSystemKeys". See Also: Define, Entry, List