Hi Gigi, Speakable items is a very old topic on this list -- this feature works on the PowerPC platform, too, and there are some old discussions about playing Chess on the Mac with Speakable Items turned on. This feature is turned on in System Preferences > Speech under the Speech Recognition tab. You can turn on the Speakable Items radio button, and select your input source (usually the internal microphone by default). I usually use the default escape key as the listening key, and set this to listen only when the escape key is pressed.
I think there's a Cult of the Mac YouTube video, "Use Speakable Items to Bring Siri's Functionality to Your Mac". You could just do a search in the YouTube app on your iOS device for "speakable items" to bring this up. Most of the other document pages on Speakable Items date from eight or nine years ago. You can give commands like "What time is it?" "Get my mail" "Empty the trash" "Show me what to say?". If you use window chooser menu (VO-F2 twice), you can find a "Speech Feedback" window and navigate there. The menu button has an "Open Speech Commands" option, but you can also do this by saying "Open Speech Commands window". I'm running Lion, so I don't know whether this has changed in Mountain Lion. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Maybe I missed something here, but i can't find how to set people Speakable > Items. I got dictation set up, no problem. > > Eugenia Firth > gigifi...@sbcglobal.net > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
