dictation mode

He had taken a little Pearlcorder out of his At and put it into dictation mode.

A difference from other programs is that FreeSpeech has a distinct dictation mode.

In NaturallySpeaking for Windows, spelling is integrated directly into the dictation mode.

Mirane stared up at him, her linger keying the dictation mode on her keypad. "

The big drawback to the spelling mode is that users must explicitly shift into spelling mode and then back to dictation mode every time they need to spell a word.

Given all the other problems in the world, this isn't a huge deal, but dictating a sentence, pausing, saying "spelling mode," spelling a word letter-by-letter, pausing, saying "dictation mode," and waiting for the software to switch is not the height of elegant behavior.