Re: Mac's Speech Recognition feature, question for a Friend

2016-01-17 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Yeah and not to mention that when I use it my mac becomes very sluggish. This is been the case ever since Mavericks, but the sluggishness has started to get really bad as of Yosemite. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 17, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Dictation worked starting

Re: Mac's Speech Recognition feature, question for a Friend

2016-01-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Dictation worked starting in Mountain Lion (10.8), but it required an Internet connection. Starting in Mavericks (10.9), you could choose to download the dictation language and perform the same task offline. I actually found things more reliable in Mountain Lion, for some reason, but it works

Mac's Speech Recognition feature, question for a Friend

2016-01-16 Thread Sharon Hooley
Hi, A friend asked me what it would take for her friend to be able to use speech recognition. I'd like to know what was the earliest version of mac that this feature was built-in that was as reliable as it is now? I ask this because I don't want to sound unsure, just in case she&

Re: speech recognition not working for me with vo on

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Malarsie
I don't know why it would do that. I have never had any issues at all using the speech recognition. I guiess it's a mini thing. Mike Malarsie On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi Esther, > > Pretty sure I know the answer but I don't sup

Re: speech recognition not working for me with vo on

2012-04-13 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey Ioana. If I were you, I wouldn't use the speech recognition. I've found way too many problems with it. On my end, it interfered with my energy saver preferences after it was triggered, meaning my screen wouldn't dim after the specified period of time I had it set at until I r

Re: speech recognition not working for me with vo on

2012-04-13 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
VO on I would assume it should work for speech recognition. Hope to one day make it work. Thanks, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com, on iTunes or most online stores. Sent from my phone On Apr 13, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Ioana, > > When not usi

Re: speech recognition not working for me with vo on

2012-04-13 Thread Esther
Hi Ioana, When not using headsets, I believe the place where speech recognition is detected is in a different location from where the output speakers are located that speak with VoiceOver. I don't know whether the sound inputs can be separated when you're using headphones. I&#x

speech recognition not working for me with vo on

2012-04-13 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I was giving speech recognition a test drive. I remember it has been discussed on the list. I unfortunately found that it does not work on my mac mini with bose headset when VO is on. Do any of you have this problem? I calibrated it and it works fine with vo turned off. Thanks for

Re: Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Becky Knaub wrote: > does anyone know if you can use this option to dictate instead of type > documents, emails etc.? The system functionality, Speakable Items, is intended to recognize specific commands, not arbitrary dictation: http://docs.info.apple.com/artic

Re: Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Jon Cohn
NO, the speech recognition built into MacOS is just for clicking on buttons and running scripts and/or macros. If you need dictation dragon is, I believe, the only alternative On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Becky Knaub wrote: > Hi all, > does anyone know if you can use this option to d

Re: Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I don't believe it works like Dragon, but serendipitously, I was fooling around with it yesterday,. It appears to have a list of "Speakable items," but I only ever got "What time is it," to respond as intended, and only one or two times out of eight or ten tries. I saw no way to add to its spe

Re: Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Becky, the Mac has such a function but my experience is it works not very reliable. You can switch it on in system preferences. I tried it out but switched it off again because the results were quite poor. All the best Jürgen Am 27.12.2011 um 10:24 schrieb Becky Knaub: > Hi all, > does anyo

Speech recognition on the mac

2011-12-27 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi all, does anyone know if you can use this option to dictate instead of type documents, emails etc.? If so how do you do it and does it work with VO? If it works like this can it work with pages or text edit? Thanks Becky and C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-19 Thread Johnny Angel!
;> calibration because I had no way to tell when it was set right, but the >>> adjustment I made seems to have improved recognition significantly. >>> Cheers, >>> donna >>> On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Greg Aikens wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Donna,

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-19 Thread Goodin, Donna
. >> Cheers, >> donna >> On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Greg Aikens wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> I haven't looked at this in a while, but there is a button labelled >>> calibrate in the speech recognition dialog. It should bring up a slider &g

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-19 Thread Johnny Angel!
>> Hope this helps. >> >> -Greg >> On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been playing around again with speech recognition following Yuma's >>> posts yesterday. My experience is th

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-18 Thread Goodin, Donna
>>> >>> Best >>> >>> Yuma >>> >>> >>> On 16/11/2011, at 4:23 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Greg, >>>> >>>> Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. I hadn't messed with the &g

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Yuma Decaux
> >>> Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. I hadn't messed with the >>> calibration because I had no way to tell when it was set right, but the >>> adjustment I made seems to have improved recognition significantly. >>> Cheers, >>> donna >

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Goodin, Donna
;> calibration because I had no way to tell when it was set right, but the >> adjustment I made seems to have improved recognition significantly. >> Cheers, >> donna >> On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Greg Aikens wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> I haven&

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
s set right, but the > adjustment I made seems to have improved recognition significantly. > Cheers, > donna > On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Greg Aikens wrote: > >> Hi Donna, >> I haven't looked at this in a while, but there is a button labelled >> calibrate

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-15 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi Donna, > I haven't looked at this in a while, but there is a button labelled calibrate > in the speech recognition dialog. It should bring up a slider that you can > move around until it is more accurate. I can't tell you what the slider > does, just that that I mov

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Donna, I haven't looked at this in a while, but there is a button labelled calibrate in the speech recognition dialog. It should bring up a slider that you can move around until it is more accurate. I can't tell you what the slider does, just that that I moved it around until i

more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-15 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi all, I've been playing around again with speech recognition following Yuma's posts yesterday. My experience is that it seems to work about 3 out of ten times. Is this others experience? Yuma, you seem to be having a lot of success, did you tweak anything in the settings

having fun with speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-14 Thread Yuma Decaux
ommands for any application using applescript, simple enough for those of you beginners or enthusiasts, to get a few things going: http://lifehacker.com/215764/hack-attack-make-your-macs-speech-recognition-work-for-you Pretty cool right? Now there's also some commands you can get familiar with i

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Friends, I am using Snow Leopard on an IMac.friend of mine, has suffered a loss of finger dexterity. She is blind I thought the native spreech recognition software on the IMac would be useful. The speech recognition software is also known as Speakable Items. It is found on the

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Jon Cohn
Becky, THe built in speech recognition on the Macintosh does not recognize words, it recognises phrases. So you could for example hold down the escape key and say "switch to system preferences" You would then hear a click and System Preferences would be launched. If you want dicta

Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi All, So I know there is speech recognition on the mac, and I have quite a few questions about it. 1. Is it compatible with Voice Over? 2. How does it work with VO? 3. How good is the quality of it, how is it with picking up your words and writing them correctly. Thanks. becky and Onyx

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread louie
>> with Voice Over.. I hope this helps. >> sincerely Yours, >> robert Nelson >> >> On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Adam wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I'm a completely blind voiceover user in search of the most accessible >>> speech recognit

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Moore
m a completely blind voiceover user in search of the most accessible >> speech recognition software out there. Is there a clear cut favorite >> on the market? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVision

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Robert Nelson
Feb 24, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Adam wrote: > Hi All, > I'm a completely blind voiceover user in search of the most accessible > speech recognition software out there. Is there a clear cut favorite > on the market? > > -- > You received this message because you are subsc

speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Adam
Hi All, I'm a completely blind voiceover user in search of the most accessible speech recognition software out there. Is there a clear cut favorite on the market? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to t

speech recognition

2010-07-02 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi when using speech recognition I plan on using a USB headset with microphone. My macbook pro has 4gigs of ram, 91gigs devoted to mac, a dual core pentium processor, and so anyway its pretty powerful. It should be able to handle speech recognition that is built into snow leopard, assuming the

Re: Trippo VoiceMagix -- new speech recognition and translation app for iPhone on sale for $6.99 in U.S. App Store

2010-06-09 Thread carlene knight
I could find an app that had a better voice, > and that overall gave a better translation. > > However, the really neat features of this app are the speech recognition, and > the support of other languages that are usually not as well covered, even > with large population bases -- like

Re: Trippo VoiceMagix -- new speech recognition and translation app for iPhone on sale for $6.99 in U.S. App Store

2010-06-09 Thread Esther
h there is a Russian Acapela group voice available -- just not as widely for most apps), I could find an app that had a better voice, and that overall gave a better translation. However, the really neat features of this app are the speech recognition, and the support of other languages tha

Re: Trippo VoiceMagix -- new speech recognition and translation app for iPhone on sale for $6.99 in U.S. App Store

2010-06-09 Thread carlene knight
h > > - 27 languages supported (Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese > Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, > Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, > Pashto, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Serbian, Tha

Trippo VoiceMagix -- new speech recognition and translation app for iPhone on sale for $6.99 in U.S. App Store

2010-06-09 Thread Esther
ian, Polish, Portuguese, Pashto, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Serbian, Thai, Urdu) - Accurate speech recognition by Nuance - Natural sounding voice output for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai - Adjustable

Re: Speech Recognition on the Mac

2010-05-31 Thread Sarah Alawami
phrases, may be incorrect, and/or out of context. Please forgive any >> errors that are in this message. Thank you very much for reading. >> On May 31, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Dean Martineau wrote: >> >>> Does anybody have any experience with the fairly new Dragon Naturally

Re: Speech Recognition on the Mac

2010-05-31 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
correct, and/or out of context. Please forgive any errors that are in this message. Thank you very much for reading. On May 31, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Dean Martineau wrote: Does anybody have any experience with the fairly new Dragon Naturally Speaking app for the Mac, or with any other speech recognitio

Re: Speech Recognition on the Mac

2010-05-31 Thread Maurice Mines
much for reading. On May 31, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Dean Martineau wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with the fairly new Dragon Naturally > Speaking app for the Mac, or with any other speech recognition app, > with VoiceOver? > > Thanks. > > Dean > ,To find out about the w

Re: Speech Recognition on the Mac

2010-05-31 Thread gladiator
do you mean macspeech or is dragon naturaly speaking itself on the mac now? On May 31, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Dean Martineau wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with the fairly new Dragon Naturally > Speaking app for the Mac, or with any other speech recognition app, > with

Speech Recognition on the Mac

2010-05-31 Thread Dean Martineau
Does anybody have any experience with the fairly new Dragon Naturally Speaking app for the Mac, or with any other speech recognition app, with VoiceOver? Thanks. Dean ,To find out about the week's news in adaptive technology, subscribe to Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday by sending a blank me

Re: A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
#x27;ve looked with some curiosity at the speech recognition capabilities of > the > Mac. I wonder if I can create my own custom phrases that the mac will > obey. > For instance, if I'm in the finder and I want to move something to the > trash, can I create a rule to say &q

A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-05 Thread .dan.
Someone asked: "I've looked with some curiosity at the speech recognition capabilities of the Mac. I wonder if I can create my own custom phrases that the mac will obey. For instance, if I'm in the finder and I want to move something to the trash, can I create a rule to

Re: A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-04 Thread Mark Gilland
Smith" To: Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:47 AM Subject: A question about speech recognition in system preferences I've looked with some curiosity at the speech recognition capabilities of the Mac. I wonder if I can create my own custom phrases that the mac will obey. For instance,

A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-04 Thread Jess Smith
I've looked with some curiosity at the speech recognition capabilities of the Mac. I wonder if I can create my own custom phrases that the mac will obey. For instance, if I'm in the finder and I want to move something to the trash, can I create a rule to say "trash this" or