Lexacom Echo supports a range of commands for utility and to help increase productivity. There are a wide range of built-in commands. You can also create your own custom commands for key presses or inserting blocks of text.
A complete list of voice commands, including custom commands can be viewed by switching on Echo and saying: ‘what can I say’ or by selecting “What Can I say from the Transcription option in the menu.
On the left, you can select to view commands for specific applications, advanced commands (Echo commands), and global options. The options listed here will change dynamically based on what applications your Team is linked to (e.g. clinical systems) and what applications you have running (e.g. “Outlook” or “Outlook (classic)”).
Some key press commands, such as press enter, have an optional number after them in brackets. This allows you to tell Echo to call out the command multiple times without having to repeat it. For example, you may be in a form or template where you can press the tab key twice to move to the next section without needing to click your mouse. In that instance you can say press tab two and Echo will press the tab key twice. You can say any whole number up to 20.
The Global and All Applications commands will work in all programs. The Outlook commands will only work in the desktop version of Outlook.
There are also commands for the EMIS Web and SystmOne clinical systems.
You can use the bar at the top to search for commands.
The Echo Commands section of the What Can I Say window displays the advanced Echo commands used for editing text and more.
You can find more details on these on the Echo Commands page.
Popular Echo commands include:
| Command | Description |
| “Scratch that” | Undoes the last action |
| Select <word/s> | Selects a specific word or phrase. e.g. saying “Select a specific word” would select the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th word of this description. |
| Replace <word/s> with <word/s> | Replaces the nearest occurrence of the first word with the second. e.g. “Replace occurrence with instance” would change the 4th word in this description to ‘instance’. |
| Bold [that | the line | the paragraph] | Applies bold formatting to the scope or current selection. e.g. saying “select formatting” would select the word ‘formatting’ and then “bold that” will make it bold. This also works for ‘underline’, ‘italicise’, capitalise’ and ‘number’ (to make a number list) |
Many more options are available.
Remember – just say “What Can I Say?” to view them all.
Echo will recognise both text and voice commands when in the normal record mode. To prevent Echo from mistakenly writing text, it can be instructed to only recognise your speech as commands.
If you have an Olympus RM 4010 series microphone, hold the ‘i’ button (above record) on the handset. Echo will go into record mode but can only execute commands. It cannot transcribe text in this mode.
You can create any number of custom voice commands as an individual user or to work across your team.
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