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Tip: If is available in the row of function keys, you can press it to start dictation or use the keyboard shortcut. For example, you could press Option-Z. Open the Keyboard pane for me. For more help with Keyboard options, click the Help button in Keyboard preferences. The pop-up menu below the microphone icon in the Dictation pane of Keyboard preferences shows which device your Mac is currently using to listen. Click the pop-up menu below the microphone icon, then choose the microphone you want to use for keyboard dictation.
Open the Dictation pane for me Click On. If a prompt appears, click Enable Dictation. For example, if you speak this command while a menu item is selected, Voice Control helps you make a command for choosing that menu item. Voice Control uses the Siri speech-recognition engine for U. English only. Other languages and dialects use the speech-recognition engine previously available with Enhanced Dictation.
If you're on a business or school network that uses a proxy server, Voice Control might not be able to download. Have your network administrator refer to the network ports used by Apple software products. Use Voice Control on your Mac With Voice Control, you can navigate and interact with your Mac using only your voice instead of a traditional input device.
Click Voice Control in the sidebar. Select Enable Voice Control. When you turn on Voice Control for the first time, your Mac completes a one-time download from Apple.
Basic navigation Voice Control recognizes the names of many apps, labels, controls, and other onscreen items, so you can navigate by combining those names with certain commands. Click Classic Letter. Has dictation really regressed so much? If so is it because Apple severed relations with Nuance a while back? Enhanced dictation, as you point out, does behave slightly differently.
For example, lately on my Mac I have not been able to get it to capitalize anything to save my life. Dictation on my phone tends to work a lot better.
Perhaps tscheresky is more familiar with what was possible in the past, though he would have been relying on Dragon Naturally Speaking then. In my case I can only type with two fingers, so even in its early days, dictation was a lifesaver. Adam, you are right.
I still use Dragon dictate for the Mac to this very day and it has a very high accuracy rate. The accuracy rate is the key thing you want in voice recognition because as you noted, it gets frustrating to have non-sensical words show up in your text. One thing that you did not mention in the article is the use of a high quality microphone to improve accuracy on the Mac. A high quality microphone can greatly increase the accuracy rate. I do too. I even have it working on my secondary computer under macOS Big Sur beta.
However those days are numbered. Not only has Dragon for Mac not been supported since October , Dragon speech engine is x86 based. As I see it, here is the path for running Dragon on the Mac. You tested it on Big Sur and it worked and that was something I was personally wondering. Next on Apple silicon it should work just fine with Rosetta 2. If Apple removes Rosetta 2 in the future, then we head for virtualization.
Will Parallels and Fusion have a solution for Apple Silicon? My guess is yes. So I think Dragon for the Mac will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.
Apple engineers are some of the best in the business. However the constraints for emulating an x86 speech engine are a lot more challenging than emulating say a word processor. Is it going to be quick enough to be usable. Will it have the hooks necessary to control the non-emulated environment. Regardless of which, neither of them would work for me.
I need native Voice Recognition VR to command-and-control my Mac in addition to being able to reliably dictate text. If you do not need to command-and-control your Mac by voice, then the current dictation capabilities and editing by voice with Voice Control should meet your needs.
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