Hello Kare, Dictation has been available for quite some time, but enhanced dictation came in with Mavericks. However, I don’t think it was nearly as powerful as it is now.
I had no reason to look closely at dictation until a couple of weeks ago when a student of mine was unable to use the keyboard effectively and I had to find a solution for him. He was used to using the iPhone, so we worked out that a combination of dictation and the trackpad commander with just the occasional simple keyboard command would work for him. Cheers, Anne > On 24 Aug 2015, at 20:54, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > May I ask the earliest edition of os x for which dictation commands are > included? > thanks, > Kare > > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Wayne, >> >> There are lots of dictation commands on the Mac. First, make sure that you >> have selected Use Enhanced Dictation in the Dictation & Speech pane of >> System preferences. Then go to the Accessibility pane and select Dictation >> in the Accessibility features table. Now click the Dictation Commands… >> button and you’ll find a table containing a long list of commands. >> You can also assign your own commands to specific key combinations. I’ve >> found that selecting an application to which these should apply doesn’t seem >> to work. But selecting all applications does. So if you choose to add a >> command for Cmd-Shift-d, it will work for sending an e-mail and for opening >> the Desktop folder. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 18:37, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> Are there any dictation commands on the mac? I haven't used Siri on my >>> iPhone 6 so far, mainly because I tend to talk softer and it can be >>> hard for Siri to understand what I am trying to say. I have tried >>> dictating to the Mac and there is no issue so far with it >>> understanding what I say. So are there any Siri like commands for the >>> Mac's dictation program? For instance, how would I dictate an email >>> address, to put it in the To field of Mail or another web-based email >>> message. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Wayne >>> >>> -- >>> Follow me on Twitter at: >>> www.twitter.com/wcmerritt >>> My websites: >>> www.wayneism.com >>> www.whitecaneday.org >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
