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Speech Preferences allows you to turn Speech Recognition on and off in OmniWeb. Turning on Speech Recognition in OmniWeb allows you to navigate the Web using spoken commands. A recognizer tool will appear to give you feedback. In order to use this feature, your computer must have a microphone set up to be the primary sound input. For best results, also turn on Speakable Items in the Speech pane of System Preferences. This panel additionally allows you to set the sound input channel and also contains helpful tips and tests for getting your computer set up to listen to you. The speech recognizer tool has four parts. The top is an indicator for whether OmniWeb is listening, and if it is, whether it is understanding a word you're saying. When OmniWeb is listening, the microphone pictured in this part will be drawn in full contrast and moving arrows will appear to either side, along with a tooltip showing any commands OmniWeb thinks it has heard. If the microphone is greyed out, press the key or keys named in the middle section to start OmniWeb listening. The default key is escape. This can be changed in the Speech pane of System Preferences. The third part is an indicator of volume. When OmniWeb is listening, it will color one or more of its four bars for any noise it can hear at all, whether or not it understands it. This is good for telling you whether you are speaking loud enough, too loud, or whether there is too much background noise. The fourth part is a popup menu which allows you to open the Speech pane of System Preferences or a window which shows what commands are available to you and what commands OmniWeb has recognized so far. OmniWeb's speech recognition feature allows you to speak menu or toolbar commands, such as "Reload This Page", but also the text of links in order to follow those links. In a page where images may be links, speak the command "Toggle Link Labels" in order to see tooltips with the text OmniWeb needs to hear in order to recognize those links. Additional commands may be obtained by turning on Speakable Items in the Speech pane of System Preferences. This includes "Page Up" and "Page Down", as well as "Make New Item" (to open a new browser window), "Close This Window" and "Quit This Application". OmniWeb recognizes the following commands for all web page windows. Load Images - Causes images which have not yet been displayed to be fetched from the server and shown. This is the same as the Load All Images command under the Browser menu. Toggle History - Hides or shows the History drawer. Previous Window - Brings the previous window to the front. This can be used to cycle through all your windows, including source windows and the Downloads panel. Add to Bookmarks - Adds a bookmark pointing to the web page shown in your frontmost window. View Links - Opens a bookmark window containing all the links on the current page. Next Window - Brings the next window to the front. This can be used to cycle through all your windows, including source windows and the Downloads panel, in the opposite direction from the Previous Window command. Auto Fill - Uses OmniWeb's AutoFill feature to fill form fields with information you have specified. This is the same as the AutoFill Form command under the Browser menu. Stop - Stops loading the current page. This is like clicking the stop button on the default toolbar. Go Back - Takes you back one page in the current window's history. This is like clicking the back button on the default toolbar. Print - Prints the current page or source view. Find - Opens the Find panel. Show Info - Opens the Document Info window. Close All Windows - Closes all of OmniWeb's open windows. Show Network Activity - Opens the Network Activity window. Start Page - Returns the current browser window to the Start Page as specified in the General Preferences pane. Smaller Text - Decreases the size of the text in the current window. This is the same as the Smaller Text command under the Browser menu. Toggle Toolbar - Hides or shows the toolbar. Larger Text - Increases the size of the text in the current window. This is the same as the Bigger Text command under the Browser menu. Go Forward - The opposite of Go Back. Sends you forward one page in the browser history, if you have previously gone back one or more pages. View Source - Opens the Source Viewer to the current page. Show Downloads - Opens the Downloads panel. Toggle Bookmarks - Shows or hides the Bookmarks drawer or window. Reload This Page - Refetches and redisplays the current page from the server or disk. This is the same as clicking the Reload button in the default toolbar. Toggle Link Labels - Show or hide tooltips containing the text alternatives for images which are links. This is the text you can speak to get OmniWeb to follow those links.
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