Windows 10: Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Windows 10


When you set up Speech Recognition in Windows 10, it lets you control your PC with your voice alone, without needing a keyboard or mouse.

Using only your voice, you can open menus, click buttons and other objects on the screen, dictate text into documents, and write and send emails. Just about anything you do with your keyboard and mouse can be done with only your voice.

Speech Recognition is only available for the following languages: English (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Australia), French, German, Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional), and Spanish.

You can improve the computer's ability to recognize spoken words by allowing Speech Recognition to review documents and email in your search index. Speech Recognition will learn words and phrases to better understand you when you speak.

See also:

• Use speech recognition | Windows Support
• Windows Speech Recognition voice commands | Windows Support

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Speech Recognition to review documents and email to improve accuracy for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Speech Recognition icon.

2. Click/tap on the Advanced speech options link on the left side. (see screenshot below)



3. In the Speech Recognition tab, check (enable) or uncheck (disable - default) Review documents and mail to improve accuracy for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)



4. You can now close the Speech Recognition control panel if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Preferences

EnableDocumentHarvesting DWORD

0 = Disable
1 = Enable


1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Document Review for Speech Recognition
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_document_review_for_Speech_Recognition_for_current_user.reg

Download

3. To Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_document_review_for_Speech_Recognition_for_current_user.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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• How to Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 10
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Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options

OK, I have checked the box in Speech Recognition User Settings ”Review documents and mail to improve accuracy”. So, what does Windows now do? Does it just go through all my documents, etc. to find words? Or does it review as I speak. I.e., what triggers the actual 'review'?
Thanks

 

Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options

Hello John, *Smile

It allows Speech Recognition to automatically review documents and e‑mail (included in the search index) on your computer for commonly used words and phrases. This can help improve recognition accuracy.

Basically, it helps to add more words and phrases for it to reference when you speak.

 

Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options

I think I 'get that'...but when does it do this? Did it do it at the moment when I checked the box? Is it ongoing, etc.? Just trying to figure out if it is helping.

 

Speech recognition errors

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.


I understand your query regarding speech recognition on the software you are using for Speech Recognizer. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• 
  How many language packs are installed and enabled on your computer and what are they?
  
• 
  Does this happen with all the language packs in the computer?
  
• 
  What are the recent changes that you have made to the computer prior to this issue?
  
• 
  Did you try any troubleshooting steps to resolve this issue?
  

The issue might be due to settings on your computer. Let’s refer to the following suggestion and check the issue status.

Refer to these steps and check the issue status.

• 
  Press Windows and X keys together.
  
• 
  Click on Control Panel.
  
• 
  Open Control Panel then Speech Recognition Options.
  
• 
  In the upper right of the Speech Recognition Option window click
  Advanced Speech Options.
  
• 
  Remove the checkmark next to, ‘Allow computer to review your documents’.
  
• 
  Click Apply and click OK
  

Refer below article to Use Speech Recognition:

Voice recognition in Windows 10

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/use-voice-recognition-in-windows-10#v1h=tab02

Keep us posted on Windows related queries and we will be happy to assist you further.

 

Enable or Disable Document Review for Speech Recognition in Advanced Speech Options

If you like, you can also manually add words to the speech recognition dictionary when it has trouble understanding them. During this process, you can include to record a pronunciation of the word to make it better understood.

*Arrow Add, Delete, Prevent, and Edit Speech Dictionary Words in Windows 10