#APPLE MAC DICTATION SOFTWARE MAC#

Use the tickboxes to turn commands on or off.You can open a Finder item, open a URL, paste text, paste data from the clipboard, press a keyboard shortcut, select a menu item or run an Automator workflow. Perform: choose the action to perform.

#APPLE MAC DICTATION SOFTWARE MAC#

While using: choose whether your Mac only performs the action when you’re using a particular app.

When I say: enter the word or phrase that you want to say to perform the action.Then configure these options to define the command: To add a new command, click the add button (+) or say “Click add”.The complete list of all commands will open. Click Commands or say “Click Commands”.Open Voice Control preferences, such as by saying “Open Voice Control preferences”.You can also create your own vocabulary for use with dictation. Click Send.” Or to replace a phrase, say “Replace I’m almost there with I’ve just arrived”. For example, to dictate and then send a birthday greeting in Messages, you could say “Happy Birthday. Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. Or say “Delete all” to delete everything and start again. For example, say “Delete that” and Voice Control will know to delete what you’ve just typed.

To delete text, you can choose from many delete commands.

Say “Numeral” to format your next phrase as a number.

To format text, try “Bold that” or “Capitalise that”, for example.

To move around and select text, you can use commands such as “Move up two sentences”, “Move forwards one paragraph”, “Select previous word” or “Select next paragraph”.

To enter a punctuation mark, symbol or emoji, just say its name, such as “Question mark”, “Per cent sign” or “Happy emoji”.

Dictation converts your spoken words into text.

When the cursor is in a document, email message, text message or other text field, you can dictate continuously.

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