KnowBrainer Professional 2017

WELCOME
Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with the new KnowBrainer Dynamic
Sidebar. the new sidebar allows you to make better use of your collection of
KnowBrainer supplied voice commands, as well as your own custom voice commands,
by letting you know what you can say and when.

• “SHOW APPLICATION COMMANDS” See instantly which of your application-

specific and window specific voice commands are available relative to the current
active window. The commands update automatically on change of active window.

• “SHOW GLOBAL COMMANDS” See your list of global commands at any time.

• “SHOW HARDCODED COMMANDS” See instantly the inbuilt / hardcoded

KnowBrainer voice commands.

• “SHOW VERBALBASIC COMMANDS” See instantly the Verbal Basic commands

available

• “EDIT SELECTED COMMAND” Allows you to edit or examine the last recognised
global, application or window specific KnowBrainer command which has been
automatically highlighted on the sidebar.

• “HIDE SIDEBAR”, “SHOW SIDEBAR”, “EXPAND SIDEBAR” and “CONTRACT

SIDEBAR” at any time.

• “SHOW KNOWBRAINER OPTIONS” at any time to show options.

• If you prefer to operate KnowBrainer old-style, that is without the sidebar showing,
just set that option in the sidebar options or “hide the sidebar” at anytime. you
can then look at your commands when required by using “Show Sidebar”
KnowBrainer Professional 2017 Command
Editor

KnowBrainer Command Editor

Create new commands instantly using:

 “New Global Command Called <any name you like>” opens

the command editor for a global command with the name you give it at
the end of the voice command. E.g. “New Global Commands called Check
My Internet Speed”

 “New Application Command <any name you like>” opens the

command editor with the relevant application highlighted in the
application, box with the command name of your choice.

 “New Window Command <any name you like>” opens the

command editor with the command name of your choice and with the
relevant application and window title highlighted in the application and
window combo boxes.

 KnowBrainer Professional 2017 implements the Polar Engineering

Winwrap Basic scripting engine with customisations by pcbyvoice Ltd.
Offers execution times far in advance of the Dragon Advanced Scripting
engine and includes, for the first time with Dragon, .NET scripting giving
access to the vast array of Microsoft .NET software libraries and
components.

 New custom extension functions from pcbyvoice including ‘OpenWebsite’,

‘MoveWindow’, ‘EmulateRecognition’ and others as well as the familiar
Dragon extensions such as ‘SetMousePosition’, ‘HeardWord’ etc.
 KB Professional 2017 Selected New Features

 A choice of sidebar skins is available (sidebar colour schemes).

 DVC Scripting is now available with KnowBrainer allowing, for example, multithreading activity while
waiting as in the KnowBrainer 2012 command "Train <1To10>" which allows you to train a word or phrase
while waiting in the command syntax.
 There is now a new registration wizard for trialling the software and activation.
 You can now enable/disable commands in the Manage Command console.
 You can now assign hotkeys to run scripts, check the options dialogue by right clicking on the KnowBrainer
icon in the system tray and choosing Options | Hotkeys.
 VerbalBasic commands are now available globally and can be shown on a separate VerbalBasic tab on the
sidebar. Just say “Show Verbal basic Commands”. All verbal basic commands are now preceded by the
word “Code…”
 You can now show the code for a command on the sidebar on the selected tab (without
implementing/calling the command) by simply using its name e.g. “SHOW command About Dragon”. The
command will be opened in the command editor.
 Similarly you can now find a command on the sidebar (without implementing it and without opening it in
code view) by simply using its name e.g. “FIND Command About Dragon”. The FIND Command
<dictation>, where dictation is the command name, will only search the existing highlighted tab for the
command. So if you require setting another tab then you will need to change it by using SHOW Global
Commands or SHOW Application Commands. The hardcoded commands listbox does not have a search
facility as all commands are shown. However The FIND Command that is actually called will be
highlighted as it is hardcoded. See below for the other FIND Command
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 There is also a new FIND ability to search the Sidebar list boxes using the first 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 characters of the
command name using the phonetic alphabet. For example "Find charlie alpha mike" will go to the first
command beginning with "cam…"

Find <phonetic alphabet> <phonetic alphabet

…
Find <phonetic alphabet> … … … … <phonetic alphabet>
 Upgrade to WinWrap Basic Windows 10 scripting package.
 SendKeys functionality now includes the Windows key as an individual key and as a modifier key.

SendKeys”{Windows}” ‘send the Windows key

SendKeys “{WindowsHold}” ‘send the Windows key + r which shows the run dialog
SendKeys “{WindowsHold}^f” ‘send the Windows key + Control Key + f which shows the find
computers dialog
 DisplayNumbers can now be used in automated scripts / Voice Commands. After displaying numbers a number
can then be chosen to left click, right click or double-click on.

Sub Main
…
DisplayNumbersAndClick 42
DisplayNumbersAndRightClick 57
DisplayNumbersAndDoubleClick 9
…
End Sub
 You can now import your commands from a previous KnowBrainer commands file if you have previously been
running KnowBrainer Professional 2014 or KnowBrainer Professional 2015.
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Featured New Commands

 Insert <dictation> = forces dictation into any field or document you can type in, even when Dragon is in Command Mode

 New Mouse Command Called <dictation> = records the mouse X & Y coordinates and creates a new application command (what
you dictate) that will left mouse click on the named menu or button 

 Change to <dictation> = changes selected text to whatever you dictate and moves the cursor to the end of the paragraph or line
 
 Fill <1to100> <dictation> = selects any bookmark [01] – [99] and overwrites the bookmark with your dictation

 Next Field <dictation> = selects the next field [text] and overwrites the field with your dictation

 Send Email to <dictation> = creates a new Outlook message, types the email address you dictate and moves to the subject line

 Google <dictation> = creates a new tab in the default web browser and searches for what you dictate

 Go To <dictation> = creates a new tab in the default web browser, and automatically jumps to the closest matching website (think
artificial intelligence)

 Build a Command Called <dictation> = copies highlighted text to the clipboard, creates a new Dragon Text-&-Graphics command
and names the command what you dictate