Hi all,

I've been experimenting with the speech recognition features of Windows 
8.1. Though the recognition engine is still learning my voice, dictation 
results aren't too bad, and I can also use speech for more general 
commands, like switching to another application, saving files, and even 
using keyboard shortcuts (e.g., "press ctrl+n"). (Btw, I put a headset 
on so the speech recognition engine doesn't pick up the screen reader.)

Anyway, the one area where speech recognition doesn't work is in Email. 
I used voice commands to open and close thunderbird and to start a new 
message, but nothing was typed when I tried using speech to enter text 
into the To or Subject edit field or into the body of the message. These 
are the same fields where my screen readers tell me to use computer 
braille.

so my question is what is it about these edit fields that makes them 
unreceptive to speech and contracted braille?

Thanks for any wisdom.

Ciao


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