For info - https://www.howtogeek.com/178636/use-voice-dictation-to-speak-to-your-mac/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210539 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40695/mac Best wishes Catherine Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Feb 2020, at 14:19, Virginia Routh <virginia.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you for these very helpful answers. I had no idea that there was > in-built voice recognition on Macs. I shall now explore it. > >>> On 2 Feb 2020, at 13:21, Catherine Hunt <cahun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Hi Virginia - >> >> Extensive experience of voice recognition, because of the RSI in my hands. >> >> I used to use Dragon on my Mac. It was, indeed brilliant, but they stopped >> updating it for the Mac. >> >> I now use the built in software on the Mac, which works extremely well. Just >> as good as Dragon, and much cheaper. >> >> The main difference is not being able easily to use voice control to operate >> the computer. I used to be able to do things like switch between apps using >> my voice, and that doesn’t seem to be possible now. >> >> There is a Dragon App for iPhone. I used it for many years, and it was >> brilliant. They started charging for it, so no longer use it. (And voice >> recognition on the iPhone is really good, anyway). >> >> https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dragon-anywhere-dictate-now/id1024652126 >> >> Best wishes, >> Catherine >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On 1 Feb 2020, at 22:21, Virginia Routh <virginia.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> Hi Smuggers. Has anybody experience of voice recognition software? My >>> brother says Dragon is the best but as he uses a PC I thought I should >>> first check with Mac users that Dragon is the best for my MacBookPro. Any >>> suggestions would be much appreciated. Virginia >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/03C33E13-A7CE-481A-9F93-D064ACA61F57%40gmail.com. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/FE5BCF8B-9E67-4688-A8D7-A7EFBCD4E29E%40gmail.com. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/41B1E7CF-6C58-4E64-8E93-1F6851226DF3%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/88EAEB9D-AA84-47C9-AB39-8D550CDA0C5C%40gmail.com.
