Unity UI What is the best way to go about returning the word clicked, from a single UI text?

The reason I am asking this is I have some voice to text implemented, and it returns the string for what was said quite reliably.
However, If the user says a big sentence and realizes one word was misinterpreted, they currently have to start again and say that whole phrase over again, resulting in another chance of mis-interpretation.

Ideally the user will click the word they see as misinterpreted, and just re-say that word.

I have considered splitting the string by the space character, instantiating buttons with no background, and then placing/spacing them to be restructured back into a sentence of clickable text buttons, which sounds a bit messy.

Things to consider:

• This is on a worldspace canvas.
• The UI interactions are triggered by the user pointing the vr controller at the panel.
• The standard unity hover, click and unhover events are still called as normal, just on a worldspace panel with VR.

Has anyone ever done anything like this in the past who can assist?

Regards,
Joel - InspaceXR

 

Sorry no one replied to this yet. If you can switch to TextMesh Pro, you can check which word was clicked with a single function, as described in this video:

This blog post has some code examples that might help, too: https://deltadreamgames.com/2018/01/