The good news is that I finally figured out how to move through file directories using voice alone. There are some limitations, insofar as the file I want to open has to be on the visible screen. I have not yet been able to dispense with the right…, left…, up…, or down… commands completely, but being able to lock onto a particular file instead of having to engage in what might be called Kentucky windage and Tennessee elevation down on the rifle range, guesstimating how far down the list I had to go before hitting my target file, makes things move a lot more smoothly.

The bad news is that my style of writing filenames with the distinguishing differences at the end of the file, rather than at the beginning, as in, moving from a general description, with varying levels of specificity thereafter. This is the way and indexes written, but it is not the way to go when trying to move through a series of subdirectories rather quickly, using voice alone. I spent some time this week relabeling a number of my master templates using alphanumeric prefixes to differentiate one from another. That works, but only to a point. This causes obvious problems when I have a directory of some five to six hundred filenames in alphanumeric order, but to access them by voice means that I have to repeat an 11-digit accession number in order to get the file to highlight.

I can't believe that I'm the first to discover this.

I'm wondering if it is possible to do a workaround in which the first five or six digits are wildcards, and the only meaningful digits in the entire sequence are the last five. Is that possible?

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From a speech recognition point of view, files and folders with standard names are easy to highlight by simply saying their name. Additionally, it's easy to instantly open a folder or file by editing your KnowBrainer Open <file> Advanced-Scripting listing command. We have around 100 folders and files that we regularly open directly with this command.

It would be possible to create a specialized listing command to handle 11 digits or a combination alphanumeric sequence but the potential for something to go wrong is relatively high so we don't recommend this approach. Our preferred methodology would be to use the Open <file> command to open the specific folder and change your file names to real names like “Marianne Krishna Report”. Once you open the folder with a single command, you could say something like “Marianne Krishna” to highlight the correct file followed by saying Enter, Enter 1 or press enter.

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I've been going back and forth on this for the last two weeks, and things are starting to gel. Not perfectly, mind you, but we're moving in that direction. One of the things that keeps bugging me is when I enter into a new directory I have no way of knowing where the default hyperlink puts me on the screen. The cursor may be hovering over the central part of the screen, but this really an illusion, because it's not really "plugged in" to the menu on the screen. Because the voice commands pretty much act as keystroke emulators, it's not immediately clear where the starting point is, and it's anybody's guess where that might be. Hyperspace jumps are linked to the TAB key; "N" repeats moves the highlighter that many links around the screen,, but it works only episodically. It seems that the starting point is in the upper left corner, but then the fun begins when I have to count the number of jobs I will have to make in order to get to the center screen. That's a waste of time and energy, and defeats the whole purpose of using voice recognition. The problem is that every screen is designed differently, and it's hard to remember how many TAB repeats will get me into the main screen on a consistent basis.

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Art Silen

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