Voice recognition

Voice recognition is a type of assistive technology that allows verbal dictation to be used as a method of navigating a computer and its applications.

While often supportive of standard keyboard navigation commands, voice recognition tools have a wider set of commands that can be used to search, select, write, and edit content. Dragon Naturally Speaking (Windows) and Voice Control (Mac OS) are both well-recognized voice recognition tools.

Mac OS Voice Control enabled with overlay set to item names

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