O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from nearly 200 publishers. Get Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform. Best text to speech software for mac and ios List of the best apps 1.Text2Speech 2.Voice Dream Reader 3.ICQ 4.Capti Voice 5.NaturalReader 6.Text to. But if your Mac has a microphone, PlainTalk is worth at least a 15-minute test drive. It lets you open programs, trigger AppleScripts, choose menu commands, trigger keystrokes, and click dialog box buttons and tabs-just by speaking their names.įew people use PlainTalk speech recognition.

Instead, PlainTalk is what’s known as a command-and-control technology.

From simple navigation to voicemail transcription, Voice makes it easier than ever to save time while staying connected. In the Keyword blank, type the word you want the Mac to listen for as it monitors the sound from your mike. A Voice number works on smartphones and the web so you can place and receive calls from anywhere. If you turn on “Listen continuously with keyword,” you have to say a certain keyword to “get its attention” before speaking each command. If you’ve set up Enhanced Dictation, they’ll appear immediately. Speak to your Mac and the words you speak will start appearing in the text field.

Next, press the Fn (Function) key twice or click the Edit menu and select Start Dictation. As a convenience, it even pauses iTunes playback while you’re pressing the key. To use voice dictation in an application on your Mac, first select a text field in an application. If you turn on “Listen only while key is pressed,” the Mac pays attention to you only when you’re pressing a key (like Esc). Figure 15-11. Turn listening on and off here.

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