Tag Archives: Vocola

Vocola commands for interactive fiction

Posted on July 4, 2013 by hand2mouth

It’s possible to dictate into many interactive fiction interpreters, such as Win Glulxe or Windows Frotz, but there are occasionally glitches–words run together, or the correction command doesn’t work right. These commands minimize the possibility of run-together words by inserting … Continue reading →

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Maintenance: Vocola

Posted on June 28, 2011 by hand2mouth

Something ugly happened to my installation of Vocola, which made me reinstall Dragon to be on the safe side. There is a stable version of Vocola up, but I haven’t yet reinstalled it. I want to wait until the Dragon … Continue reading →

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“Autoscroll” Kindle for PC with Dragon: Vocola

Posted on June 24, 2010 by hand2mouth

These are some Vocola commands for reading on Kindle. The first command is the closest I could get to an auto scroll feature; it will turn a certain number of “pages” on a delay, which you might want to adjust … Continue reading →

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Control your DVD/CD drive with Dragon: AutoHotkey/Vocola

Posted on November 1, 2009 by hand2mouth

This script to control your CD/DVD drive by voice is optionally twofold. It requires AutoHotkey to assign it to a keypress, and Vocola or another Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-on to assign a voice command to that key if you wish. You … Continue reading →

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Vocola commands for Win32Pad

Posted on October 2, 2009 by hand2mouth

# Voice commands for win32pad new document = {Ctrl+n}; open document = {Ctrl+o}; save document = {Ctrl+s}; Go to line 1..50 = {Ctrl+g} $1 {Enter}; delete line 1..50 ={Ctrl+g} $1 {Enter} {Ctrl+y}; indent = {Tab}; unindent = {Shift+Tab};

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Vocola commands for Tetris

Posted on September 7, 2009 by hand2mouth

These commands apply to the version of Tetris I mentioned in Play Tetris with your voice. # Voice commands for tetris New game = {F2}; flip (left = {NumKey8} | right = {NumKey5}) 1..4 = $1_$2; drop = {NumKey2}; (pause … Continue reading →

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Click Firefox links with the apostrophe ‘ and Dragon

Posted on July 8, 2009 by hand2mouth

The auto scrolling bookmarklet prompted me to write this post, but the fix I’m going to describe applies to Firefox globally as well. I said earlier that the bookmarklet’s number key speed shortcuts conflicted with Mouseless Browsing, but even if … Continue reading →

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Restart Dragon vocally: Vocola

Posted on June 4, 2009 by hand2mouth

To use certain memory intensive programs, I not only have to end unnecessary processes, but also temporarily turn off the functions in Dragon I don’t need for that particular program. (I’ll go into this more when I talk about using … Continue reading →

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Mouseless Browsing and Dragon: how to open links in new tabs

Posted on March 7, 2009 by hand2mouth

Opening links in a new tab with Dragon is a useful function, and can be done through Mouseless Browsing. You can do this with or without Vocola, but the Vocola command is a lot quicker. 🙂 With Vocola: Go into … Continue reading →

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Bypassing text fields in mouseless browsing

Posted on February 18, 2009 by hand2mouth

My list of Vocola commands for Firefox is getting pretty long, so I figure I should start breaking it up. Since a lot of Firefox use with Dragon involves mouseless browsing, I thought it would be a good idea to … Continue reading →

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