Vocola supports dictation because for many applications Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) allows dictation only via the correction panel and does not support correction or modification of dictated text.

This Dictation class allows correction and modification of the phrase most recently recognized by Vocola dictation, through functions such as Get, Correct, and Replace. Vocola maintains a stack of recently-dictated phrases, so earlier phrases can be accessed if the just-dictated phrase is removed (see Replace).

The functions in this class cannot access phrases recognized by WSR dictation.

Other than the stack of recently-dictated phrases, Vocola has no knowledge of a document's text or insertion point. Vocola modifies the just-dictated phrase by first sending enough "backspace" keystrokes to remove it, so modification will not work correctly if the insertion point moves from the end of the just-dictated phrase. To be conservative, Vocola clears the dictation stack after a command action unless that action is known to not affect the insertion point.