Interpreter States

Interpreter states affect the behavior of the interpreter. These states can be activated and deactivated at any time. This page describes these states.

Auto Spacing

The auto spacing state controls whether space characters are automatically inserted between words within an utterance. This state is active by default. You can activate or deactivate this state by saying "spacing on" or "spacing off".

Deactivating this state is useful when you are writing code or entering alphanumeric sequences, where automatic spacing is sometimes undesirable.

Auto Utterance Spacing

The auto utterance spacing state controls whether space characters are automatically added after each utterance. This state is inactive by default. You can activate or deactivate this state by saying "utterance spacing on" or "utterance spacing off".

Activating this state is useful when you are mostly typing new text. This state may be undesirable when you're editing existing text or entering alphanumeric data.

Auto Capitalization

The auto capitalization state controls whether the recognizer can control capitalization of typed words. This state is inactive by default, because most recognizers do not accurately capitalize words. You can activate or deactivate this state by saying "capitalization on" or "capitalization off".

Note that this feature only works for recognizers that are capable of applying capitalization. You can see whether a recognizer is applying capitalization in the user interface utterance history ("Recognizer: ..."). Currently, the default recognizer, Vosk, does not apply capitalization, but all other supported recognizers do apply capitalization.

Auto Scrolling

The auto scrolling state is used to automatically scroll. When activated, the mouse scrolls down a few ticks every few seconds. This is useful when skimming long content or social media. You can activate automatic scrolling by saying one of the following:

• "start scrolling"
• "start scrolling slow"
• "start scrolling fast"

You can deactivate this state by saying "stop scrolling".

In the settings, you can configure whether these commands scroll up or down, the number of ticks, and the scroll period. You can also create custom automatic scrolling commands, each configured with different values.

Holds

Some commands allow you to hold down modifier keys and mouse buttons. For example, you can say "hold shift" and "release shift" to hold and release the shift key. While the key is being held, the user interface shows the key currently being held. If your input suddenly starts behaving strangely, you have likely forgotten to release a key.

In rare circumstances where Utterly Voice is forced to terminate abruptly (for example, end process from the task manager) while it is holding a key or mouse button, it will remain held after the application closes. All of your computer's physical keyboard and mouse input will behave strangely. To remedy this, simply press and release the held modifier key or mouse button on your physical keyboard and mouse.