Voice Command

Voice Command (or VoiceCommand or voice-command) does not, by default, start at boot-up; you must run the program, and then right-click the system tray icon (a very small speaker) to 'enable' the program.

Voice Command can only be used to launch programs; no other interaction is possible. Originally, ASUS expected people to say 'E <Command Word>' but currently people must say “Computer <Command Word>” and then the Eee PC will repeat back the Command Word and execute the task.

• Computer Music (Launches Music Manager)
• Computer Clock (Launches KDE World Clock)
• Computer Dictionary (Launches PEARSON Longman [in Chinese])
• Computer Notes (Launches Popup Notes)
• Computer Calculator (Launches KCalc)
• Computer Camera (Launches UVC Camera)
• Computer Photo (Launches Photo Manager)
• Computer Shutdown (Brings up the Shutdown options)
• Computer Movie (Launches File Manager at your 'My Videos' folder)
• Computer Mail (Launches Thunderbird)
• Computer Telephone (Launches Skype)
• Computer Messenger (Launches Pidgin)
• Computer Network (Launches Network Connections)
• Computer Web (Launches Firefox[?])

VoiceCommand can be found within the 'Settings' tab of 'Simple Mode'.

You may have to create a menu item manually for voice-command; you can find the 'voiceCmd' folder within /opt folder.

You can install voice-command version 1.0.12 from the official ASUS repository, using “Synaptic Package Manager” or the command line 'apt-get'.

sudo apt-get install voice-command

You can remove voice-command: sudo dpkg –purge voice-command

You can upgrade or remove VoiceCommand within the 'Simple Mode' when using the 'Add and Remove Programs' application.

If VoiceCommand does not seem to work in 'Advanced Mode', switch to 'Simple Mode', where it will work, then switch back to 'Advanced Mode' and it will work upon relaunch.