Managing Virtual Machines Using Spoken Commands

Parallels Desktop allows you to use spoken commands for managing the virtual machine behavior. The following spoken commands are available:

Commands	Description
Start	Starts a virtual machine.
Suspend	Suspends a virtual machine.
Shut Down	Shuts down a virtual machine.
Pause	Pauses a virtual machine.
Stop	Stops a virtual machine.
Reset	Resets a virtual machine.
Snapshot	Opens the Snapshot Manager window.
Make Screenshot	Makes a screenshot of the Guest OS window and stores it on the Mac OS X Desktop.
Make Clip	Makes a clip.
Switch to Coherence	Switches to the Coherence view mode.
Switch to Full Screen	Switches to the Full Screen view mode.
Switch to Window	Switches to the Window view mode.
Edit Configuration	Opens the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog.
New	Creates a new virtual machine.
Open	Opens a virtual machine.
Download	Allows you to download a virtual machine appliance available at http://www.parallels.com/en/ptn/dir .
About Parallels Desktop	Opens the About Parallels Desktop menu.
Install Parallels Tools	Launches the installation of Parallels Tools in the running virtual machine.
Report a Problem	Opens the Parallels Problem Report window.
Open	Opens an existing virtual machine and registers it in Parallels Desktop.
Open Directory	Opens the Parallels Virtual Machines window.

To enable the speech commands, select Enable spoken commands in the Advanced pane of Parallels Desktop Preferences and, if necessary, tune the speech settings on the corresponding tab of Mac OS X System Preferences.