User Interface

This document describes the user interface features.

By default, the application window is a narrow window that is anchored at the top of your display. Only full screen windows can cover it, and maximized windows are opened below it.

We recommend keeping the window anchored at the top of your screen, because it is very helpful to monitor modes and recognized text at all times. However, you can update the userInterfaceHeight setting in the general settings file if you would like to make it a normal, resizable window.

Microphone Button

The microphone can be in one of three states:

• Off: The application is not receiving data from the microphone. The microphone button is grey.
• On: The application is receiving data from the microphone, and it is processing utterances. The microphone button is green.
• Pause: The application is receiving data from the microphone, but it ignores everything except for the "resume listening" command. The microphone button is yellow.

You can do any of the following to control the microphone state:

• say "stop listening" to turn the microphone off.
• say "pause listening" to pause the microphone.
• say "resume listening" to change the state from pause to on.
• click the microphone button to turn it on and off.
• press a foot pedal (or normal keyboard key) that is configured to emit the hot key value of the microphoneHotKey general setting to turn the microphone on and off.

Microphone Signal Indicator

This indicator shows the current microphone signal amplitude. The horizontal line in the middle is a marker for the utterance threshold. The color turns green while an utterance is being captured.

You can also click this indicator to open the setup window, which has important microphone settings.

Mode and State List

This list shows the currently active modes and interpreter states.

Utterance History

This lists all utterances since the application started. Each line represents processing of a single utterance. Each time you say an utterance, a line is added and automatically scrolled to the bottom, so it is visible.

Each utterance line shows the utterance processing steps in the following order:

1. Utterance count.
2. Recognition latency and results.
3. Results of swap processing.
4. Results of interpreter processing. Command calls are enclosed in square brackets, and command parameters are enclosed in parentheses.

For example:
4. Recognizer (249ms): "i want to visit capital fred period" -> Swap: "I want to visit capital fred period" -> Interpreter: I want to visit [capital](fred) [period],
which types "I want to visit Fred.". The "i" was swapped with "I", the "capital" command was called with the argument "fred", and the "period" command was called with no arguments.

Close Button

The close button quits Utterly Voice. You can also say "quit utterly voice" at any time or "close window" while the window is active.

Help Button

The help button opens the mode help. You can also say "open help".