How to Work with Speech > Speech in Controls > Speech in the Button Control

Control Purpose

This control is used to deploy an action. It can include text or images.

Depending on what your MCL-Designer V4 subscription includes, this control can have another feature - speech. This means that the operator can activate the Button control via the keyboard (ex: using direction keys), via a touchscreen (by clicking on it), or via a spoken word (the operator says a specific word that activates the intended Button control).

This topic only describes the speech related options included in a Button control. For more information on this control, see Adding a Button Control to a Screen.

Step-by-step

1. Add the Button control to the screen by dragging it from the top section of the "Control" tab OR the Style Preview section onto the screen.

2. In the control's properties window, fill in the "General" and "Layout" tabs as required. See Adding a Button Control to a Screen.

Remember that all speech input data (stored in a variable that is defined in the "General" tab) must be managed with the use of processes in the "Actions" tab.

3. Open the "Speech" tab. By default, the tab's options are inactive.

This tab is used to activate the control's speech attribute and to define its use (control activation through speech).

4. Check the "Speech Input" box to enable the control's speech feature.

5. Enter a focus word OR click to select a variable with the intended value. See Variable Usage.

The focus word is used by the operator to activate the Button control. Instead of using the keyboard or clicking the control on the screen, the operator uses the focus word to trigger the action associated to the Button control.

6. If required, continue to the "Actions" tab to add processes. See Adding a Button Control to a Screen - Actions tab (step 16).

Any future editing in the "Speech" tab, requires clicking in the properties window to apply the changes.