Hmmm, that's really too bad. Well, thanks for sharing your experience, maybe we all need to wait a while and hopefully Apple will make some improvements here. Best, Donna On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Carolyn wrote:
> Hi Donna: > I watched a one to one trainer attempt to demonstrate the Mac's voice command > recognition ability. Quite honestly, I was embarrassed for her how poorly it > went. I don't think apple developers have spent a lot of time on this part > of their goal of universal access.I think Melissa may have gotten an answer > to "what time is it?" and that's about it. :) > > Take care > > Carolyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Donna Goodin > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:15 PM > 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.
