Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-17 Thread John Maliga
I've often thought that speech commands and dictation on the Mac can be almost as good as Dragon Apple licenses the software from Dragon. Also note that, by check the Use advanced dictation in the Dictation Speech System Preference Pane, the dictation software is downloaded to your

Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, Sometimes there’s speech and sometimes there isn’t. I think it depends on whether there are new messages or not. I hope I shall get feedback from him now he’s back home and having to use his Mac on his own. Cheers, Anne On 15 Aug 2015, at 23:34, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com

Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-15 Thread Pete Nalda
Love this! Can't wait until my mbp get back from the shop, and can go explore. I personally *love* the voice interaction my iPhone gives me. :) Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda

Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-15 Thread Alex Hall
If he wants to open Mail, then compose a new message, all with speech, does he get VoiceOver feedback? That is, does VO say anything when Mail launches, or the message composition window appears? I'm hoping the total lack of speech is something odd on my system. On Aug 15, 2015, at 3:10 PM,

Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-15 Thread Alex Hall
I'm glad you mentioned this. I've often thought that speech commands and dictation on the Mac can be almost as good as Dragon, but much more accessible. The problem I always run into is that VoiceOver and dictation don't play nice together. Even with headphones in, VO speech is automatically

Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello listers, Those of you who do Mac training might be interested in the experience we had this week, teaching a Mac beginner with very little computer experience of any kind. Our client has problems with his hands. He can only press one key with each hand and has trouble finding his way

Re: Yosemite and voice commands

2015-08-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, I forgot to mention that my client is very comfortable with his iPhone, so the Trackpad Commander was also part of the mix. We set a voice command to speak selected text and there is already a voice command to select all. We certainly had no problems with VoiceOver interfering with