But those advances still aren't enough to get most people talking to their computers in kinder, gentler tones. There are plenty of potential applications for voice recognition. Keep it simple The simplest ones work best. Auto PC apprehends human commands and responds with information in a synthesized voice. IBM's ViaVoice includes a document analyzer for adding words.
Command mode is when a user says words linked to commands, which are then interpreted and executed.
You might use command mode to navigate menus in applications or activate macros. This is how voice recognition is used in Auto PC and the voice applications for phone systems. Each word is recognized independently and processed by the recognition software, then passed to the operating system or active application as a command, keystroke or predetermined set of commands. In dictation mode, the computer transcribes what you say into a word processing document, e-mail or other application, adding appropriate punctuation and spelling the words based on context. Dictation is a more difficult computing function than command mode.