Re: dictation question

2014-06-11 Thread Jessica D
I have used dictation in both ways before. I have done both with success. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 11, 2014, at 3:02 AM, "Gabriele Battaglia" > wrote: > > Hi All. > > Referring to a iMac27, localized in italian, with Mavericks. > > I've never been succesful with dictation. I tried both

Re: dictation question

2014-06-11 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi All. Referring to a iMac27, localized in italian, with Mavericks. I've never been succesful with dictation. I tried both advanced (used offline also) and normal (where you must be connected to the net), the second one gives me some better results but it is absolutely failing compared to the

Re: dictation question

2014-06-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again I'm not sure, but if that happened to me, and I wanted to use dictation, I would consider restarting my computer. Have you tried that? Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:10 AM, isaac wrote: > > When I was trying to dictate for some reason text doesn't appear at all. Thi

Re: dictation question

2014-06-10 Thread isaac
When I was trying to dictate for some reason text doesn't appear at all. This time when I tried it mail crashed. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I always press the function key once to stop dictation. It occasionally > happe

Re: dictation question

2014-06-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
I always press the function key once to stop dictation. It occasionally happens to me that the text does not appear. This used to happen to me more before Mavericks. Regards, Gigi On Jun 9, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: > Hi All, > When I use dictation the text is not appearing on

Re: dictation question

2014-06-09 Thread Alex Hall
I can press function twice, release it, speak, and press it once to dictate. I don't believe you need to hold it down by default, and I can't think of a setting to change that. When this was happening to me, it turned out I had selected the wrong microphone. Go to System Preferences, Dictation

Re: dictation question

2014-06-09 Thread Jessica D
Are you running Mavericks? If you are did you enable enhanced dictation? This will give you unlimited dictation and allow you to dictate when you are off-line. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 9, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: > > Hi All, > When I use dictation the text is not appearing o

Re: dictation question

2014-06-09 Thread Jessica Moss
Unless you've changed something in the settings, you have to let go of the function key after you're finished speaking, then the text you've spoken should show up. On Jun 9, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: > Hi All, > When I use dictation the text is not appearing on the screen. When I a

dictation question

2014-06-09 Thread Laura Bratton
Hi All, When I use dictation the text is not appearing on the screen. When I am in a document or an email I press the function key twice to start dictation. Once I hear the sound I start speaking. Then I press the function key twice and I hear the sound that stops the dictation. After that noth