This month I offer a digital Christmas/Advent calendar, dispensing a Dragon speech recognition nugget every day until Christmas.

Practical and fun.

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Today I am sharing a couple of simple custom voice  commands that I have created in my Dragon speech recognition on my Windows computer.

If you'd ever want help with custom voice commands like this, you're warmly invited to try the Learn Dragon Online Academy for just $7.

I explain what a custom command is and how you can make one. (Spoiler: it is not hard at all).

Also I discuss when custom voice commands can make your life easier.

Here's a step by step procedure for adding your own custom voice command.

The command described will hide/show your bookmark bar (favourites) in Firefox.

1.   if you are creating a command that is specific for e.g. Firefox, then make sure that Firefox is started. It doesn’t need to be the active window, but it needs to be open for Dragon to later see it.

2.   Either give the voice command “add new command” or click in the DragonBar on Tools followed by Add new command.

3.   In the MyCommand Name field you type or dictate what you want to say to trigger the command. For example “my bookmarks”.

4.   Is the command for a specific application, for example for Firefox, then click on the radio button where it says Application-specific. Where it says application, you can now drop down the list and choose Firefox.

5.   Then find command-type and change that to step-by-step

6.   below the big white box it says new step | keystrokes and then a button that says Insert. Click the Insert button.

7.   In the small window that then appears, you press the desired keystroke or key combination by hand on the keyboard. E.g. Ctrl + Shift + B and then you see the combination entered Ctrl + Shift + B.

8.   Click on OK to confirm the tiny window and then on Save to finalise creating the command.

9.   Then go into Firefox and try out your brand-new command!

Happy dictating!

Here's a brief message from me.

It's been a while since I recorded a new podcast episode and that is due to the flu. Both my husband and I have been sick :-(

Sadly that has derailed all my plans as well as my schedule. It'll take me a bit of time to get back on track again.

But I'm looking forward to chatting with you again in a couple of weeks!