Windows Speech Recognition Macros is a free add-on that extends the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. Users can create powerful macros that are triggered by spoken voice commands to interact with applications. These macros can perform a single task, or a series of tasks.

Macros can be as simple as inserting your mailing address to as complex as providing a completely different speech interaction utilizing a number of built in capabilities or utilizing custom JScript/VBScript actions. While creating simple macros is very straightforward, the creation and editing of more complex macro files is best suited for advanced users.

Creating a Speech Macro
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This example will show you how to create a simple macro that will insert your mailing address into the current application whenever you say “my mailing address.”

1. Right-click on the WSR Macros icon to display the menu and choose “New Speech Macro…”
2. The Speech Macro Wizard will appear with four choices. Choose the first one “Insert Text”
3. Type or speak “my mailing address”
4. Press the Tab key or say “Tab” to move to the next field
5. Type or speak the text you would like to appear. For example, you could type “Mailing Address……..”, pressing Enter to separate the lines as you choose
6. When finished, press or say “Next”
7. The wizard will confirm your choices and prompt for a filename to save the speech macro. (Note that in order for WSR Macros to load the macro, the file must be saved in the Speech Macros folder, under the current users Documents folder)
8. Press or say “Finish” to complete the wizard and save the new macro file