There is an easy way to create a shortcut for any (or an arbitrary) Dragon command.

First create a tiny pgEmulate.vbs script and put it somewhere accessible. This script, when run directly, presents an input box that lets you type or dictate some text for Dragon to recognize. So if you type in or dictate a command name (careful of capitalization, which counts here), Dragon will treat that input as if you said it. The script also lets you optionally pass in a parameter for what you want to say, so skips the input box and goes right to recognizing that text.

For the first version, create a shortcut on your desktop to the vbs script. Assign it a shortcut key (apparently you can only use Ctrl + Alt + Letter combos in the Shortcut properties) or use AHK or ME to assign any hotkey or hotstring combo of your choice. For the second version, just edit the target property to add the command to be recognized in quotes, such as:

C:\pgEmulate.vbs "what can I say"

and give it a shortcut key, too.

Here is pgEmulate.vbs (create in any text editor, just make sure to change the extension from .txt to .vbs).

if WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 then x = WScript.Arguments(0)
if x = "" then x = InputBox("Enter your command or text:")
Set Dgn = GetObject("","Dragon.DgnEngineControl")
Dgn.Register
if x <> "" then Dgn.RecognitionMimic(x)
Dgn.UnRegister(0)
Set Dgn = Nothing

If you put this in a convenient spot, you can use it in your scripts to asynchronously run a recogniton:

ShellExecute "D:\path to\pgEmulate.vbs ""phrase to be recognized""", 6

Or, with a variable expression:

x = "phrase to be recognized"
ShellExecute "D:\path to\pgEmulate.vbs """ & x & """", 6

More about ShellExecute and that 6 at the end: here.  (Hint, it's supposed to run in a minimized background window - ymmv.)

Hth,

PG

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Frank Ramage

+1 as you would say or maybe +more

Here's more: Using pgEmulate on an arbitrary selection

In short, naturally pgEmulate can send the "select that" or "bold that" Dragon dictation commands, but it can also be used to select or bold (or change the case of) an arbitrary phrase, "select <xyz>" using the <dictation> list.

PG

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I'm curious what the trailing 6 is for. Is it something required by Dragon or is it something for pgemulate?  

Thank you for posting that script. It's quite clever!

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Check out the help for ShellExecute: it is the windowStyle parameter keeping the window minimized and not active. Well, perhaps the window would only flash so briefly anyway, but I got used to using it while frequently shell-executing to any script outside Dragon (usually ahk, but more often, a vbs, as above).

PG

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Here's a neat trick if you use the same commands on different computers. Store your utility files in the Windows "User" directory (one above your user name), so typically:

C:\Users

Then access those utilities as follows:

ShellExecute Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\..\pgEmulate.vbs ""list all windows""", 6

More info on the useful <switcher> command including optionally saying the number of the window to switch to, is here.  Just say "switcher" to get the "list programs" window, or "switch <number>" to follow with choosing that number from the list.

Note, while this works in the Advanced Scripting language, the Environ function is not available in DVC legacy scripting. So, if you want to use this in your System.DVC file under the "Asleep" mode (I call it "switcher" and consider it essential) you will have to hard code the path.

PG

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