Well said Heather. I am replying to this, to test Apple Mail List Reply.
Mark On Nov 29, 2010, at 1:41 AM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > My thought exactly, I guess we are not quite ready for the 24th centery. But > I don't know why we can talk to a computer over the phone for other tasks and > the mac cant do simple voice recognition. But I have to give credit, it is a > heck of a lot better than most! Heather > ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:22 AM > Subject: RE: using speech commands on the Mac > > >> Thank you, donna. >> >> Yeah! I tried for over 4 days, about 4 months ago to get the speech to work >> and it was a total bust. >> >> As a major Star Trek fan, I would love nothing more than to be able to talk >> to my Mac. >> >> I'm sure, as time moves forward so will speech access. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:15 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: using speech commands on the Mac >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> the guy at the Apple store made it sound like a breeze, but so far I'm >> getting nothing. I may go back in and see if he can help me further. In >> either case, I'll keep you posted. Seems like a really handy feature, I >> could get into being Jean-Luc Picarde! lol >> Donna >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:11 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >>> Hello Donna. >>> >>> I tried working with the speech activation feature on my Mac but never had >> that much luck with it, surprisingly. >>> >>> I hope you have better luck with it than I. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I was in the Apple store this afternoon and learned that you could give >> spoken commands to the Mac. so, I've gone into system preferences and >> turned it on, and I did some work trying to calbirate the microphone, but >> I'm having no luck getting the spoken commands to work. Does any one have >> any pointers on how to do this successfully? I have it set up to be >> activated by spoken workd, and have left the default setting of the word >> computer. >>>> TIA, >>>> Donna >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
