[Dinius]

> if you use an English word as a command, such as ‘return’, it means you can never type out that word.

Not exactly true. The word by itself would be recognized as a command, but in a sentence it’ll be treated as any other word, assuming you don’t pause for too long before it.

[lunixbochs]

You're probably thinking of some other voice command system, or Dragon's built-in commands (which are bad because they have no continuous recognition, requiring constant pauses while talking). Voicecode behaves exactly as described in the article.

I just defined a command "return" in Voicecode which presses enter.

"testing return testing test test return test return test" spoken in one breath types the following:

  testing
  testing test test
  test
  test

Voicecode defines commands in Dragon by just adding words to the English vocabulary, leaving Dragon in dictation mode, and running a parser on the English output. Commands are executed anywhere they land in the phrase. The Voicecode grammar makes this somewhat less painful by using lots of non-English words for commands... but this approach is convoluted and hurts accuracy quite a bit imo.

[foxxed]

The pausing solution is incorrect, but to say you could never use the word is also incorrect. See "keeper" such as "keeper return".

[foxxed]

No, pausing will not prevent the word being recognized as a command in Voicecode. However, you can tell VC to ignore commands and just treat what's spoken as regular text. The command "keeper" will do this.

[lunixbochs]

however, voicecode's use of dictation as I outlined in my sibling comment means keeper will type out all the nonsense words too (which is some of what I meant by voicecode's approach affecting accuracy)