VBA - Adding Speech Recognition To Your Application

Why type when you can talk! Exploring how we can add speech recognition to any VBA application: Access, Excel, Outlook, Word, ... to enable entering information by simply dictating. In this video, I implement it within a Microsoft Access form, but the same principle can easily be applied to any other application, VBA UserForm, ... With this in place you can now perform dictation to your form to make data entry rather than needing to type! The beauty here is we do NOT need any extra software as it is all already baked into Windows and available to us to use!!! Article(s) on this Subject: • https://www.devhut.net/adding-speech-recognition-to-your-application/ • https://www.devhut.net/simulating-keyboard-keystroke-sequences/ Other Useful Links: • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms720588(v=vs.85) • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-keybd_event • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes Content Narration: If you wish to explore the inverse, meaning get an application to narrate content to you, then review the following article/video. • https://www.devhut.net/speak-to-me-access-speak-to-me/ My Links: • https://www.cardaconsultants.com/ (business) • https://www.devhut.net/ (blog)