That was my exact experience. I tested it on a single word - it worked fine. I sent it off to my beta tester who immediately tried it on three words and it failed. I have now played around with splitting up <dictation> - still no success:

Sub Main

   Dim selection, another As String

   Dim words() As String' dimension a string array

   Dim dictation As String

   Dim k As Integer

   Dim result As String

   selection = Chr(34) & "select" & Chr(34) & ", "

   dictation=ListVar2

   words=Split(dictation," ")

   For k = 0 To UBound(words)

       selection = selection & Chr(34) & words(k) & Chr(34) & ", "

   Next

   selection = Mid(selection, 1, Len(selection) - 2)

' MsgBox selection' string is now built perfectly: ""select", "over", "the""

   ' HeardWord selection' does not work

another = "select over the"

' HeardWord another' does not work

'HeardWord "select", "over", "the" ' works just fine

   Wait 0.4

   ' SendKeys "{Esc}", 1

   Select Case ListVar1

      ' […]

      Case "Strikethrough", "Strike Out", "Strikeout"

         SendKeys "%s", 1

   End Select

End Sub

I wonder if EmulateRecognition would work around this restriction?

-Edgar
DPI 15.3, 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, OpenOffice & Office 365, Norton Security, Shure X2U XLR to USB mic adapter with Audio Technica DB135 vocal mic, Asus X299-Deluxe Prime, Intel Core i9-7940X (14 core, 4.3 GHz overclocked to 4.9 GHz), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600) F4-3333C16Q-64GTZ, NVIDIA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD REV 2.0 6GB graphics card with 3 1920x1080 monitors

Yes, of course because it takes but a single string sequence that can include spaces and is easily accessible in the command browser without referencing or registering anything.  So, using the dictation variable and some processing to come up with a string to "recognize" is a natural. 

In fact, that was the first "real" reason I had to come up with pgEmulate as detailed more here because I was using AutoHotKey to recognize a command that then passed an utterance to the recognizer.  So, if I said "Strikethrough|Strikeout something" I first send the "select something" to Dragon, and if that something is "that" it selects the last utterance like saying "select that" or else it has Dragon search the viewport for the "something" to select, and then apply the strikethrough|strikeout in your case or uppercasing, camelcasing, titlecasing, etc. I was implementing.

PG

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I cannot get even the simplest Advanced Scripting command to compile with EmulateRecognition:

Sub Main

EmulateRecognition "copy that"

End Sub

EmulateRecognition -> **ERROR**

(10551) Expecting a constant, vulvar name or function name.

It's like I might be missing a Reference but I have tried a shotgun approach of adding all of the dragon-related references without any success. BTW I am running DPI 15.3 but I cannot imagine that something this simple is broken in this version of Dragon.

-Edgar
DPI 15.3, 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, OpenOffice & Office 365, Norton Security, Shure X2U XLR to USB mic adapter with Audio Technica DB135 vocal mic, Asus X299-Deluxe Prime, Intel Core i9-7940X (14 core, 4.3 GHz overclocked to 4.9 GHz), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600) F4-3333C16Q-64GTZ, NVIDIA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD REV 2.0 6GB graphics card with 3 1920x1080 monitors