Speech Preferences
The
Speech
pane allows you to use spoken commands for managing the virtual machine behavior. The following spoken commands are available:
Commands
|
Description
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Start
|
Starts a virtual machine.
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Suspend
|
Suspends a virtual machine.
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Shut Down
|
Shuts down a virtual machine.
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Pause
|
Pauses a virtual machine.
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Stop
|
Stops a virtual machine.
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Reset
|
Resets a virtual machine.
|
Snapshot
|
Opens the
Snapshot Manager
window.
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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.
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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.
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To enable the speech commands, select
Enable spoken commands
:
To successfully operate your virtual machine by using the speech commands, please make sure that:
-
the virtual machine window is active, and
-
the speech settings are properly tuned on the corresponding tab of the Mac OS X System Preferences
If the speech settings are not tuned, you will see the
'To enable this option, you should turn on speakable items in System Preferences'
warning message.
To tune the speech settings, click
Open System Preferences
.
To submit the changes, click
OK
, otherwise, click
Cancel
.
Locking Parallels Desktop Preferences
If you want to prevent Parallels Desktop Preferences from further unauthorized changes, click the Lock icon
at the bottom of the window. The next time anybody wants to change the settings in any pane of Parallels Desktop Preferences, an administrator's password will be required.
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