# Can I get a speech program use my verbal commands to make online poker bets?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 26, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-speech-program-use-my-verbal-commands-to-make-online-poker-bets/490930 "2009-03-26T23:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-speech-program-use-my-verbal-commands-to-make-online-poker-bets/490930/1 "2009-03-26T23:29:36Z")

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Where I play, we have the keyboard commands and also mouse-driven commands.

All Keyboard Commands are preceded by ALT and must be depressed when you strike the second key. The second letters are:

C for Check or Call  
K for Check/Fold. If someone bets ahead of you you Fold. If no one bets you Check.  
R Raise (Usually double the most recent bet)  
P Your bet matches whatever’s in the POT  
Another kind of Raise and you plug in the amount you want to risk  
All In. You bet all you have on the table

With something like the Dragon program, Could I verbalize these commands - or the Mouse Driven ones which seem to be links that the program interprets as bets.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-speech-program-use-my-verbal-commands-to-make-online-poker-bets/490930/2 "2009-03-26T23:34:15Z")

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And if it is possible could you tell me step-by-step how to do this?

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-speech-program-use-my-verbal-commands-to-make-online-poker-bets/490930/3 "2009-03-27T00:04:00Z")

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Bimp

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-speech-program-use-my-verbal-commands-to-make-online-poker-bets/490930/4 "2009-03-27T01:55:41Z")

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Looks like Vista has a built-in function of what you want to do.

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