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Jun 12, 2015 Now on the new lead for calibrating the speech recognition in Maverick. No such animal in Yosemite. I wound up wandering around for a while checking possibly related menus and commands within the Accessibility section. Having done a lot of work with a blind woman, I am especially intrigued by the related features of the Mac, but. Jan 19, 2018 On Windows 10, Speech Recognition is an easy-to-use experience that allows you to control your computer entirely with voice commands.
Yosemite continues to improve on speech recognition in Macintoshes by offering a host of tools that let you get more work done in a shorter amount of time as well as provide voice control for those Mac owners who have difficulty with or are unable to use a traditional keyboard, mouse, or trackpad.
Before you start using Dictation, make sure you have a microphone with which to import sound into your Mac. Many current Macintosh models have a built-in microphone. An Intel iMac sports a microphone built into the monitor. MacBooks have a similar microphone built into the screen.
If your Mac doesn’t have a microphone, though, you can easily connect one via the microphone jack. (Apple’s line of Thunderbolt displays also includes a built-in camera and microphone.)
If you’re looking for the best quality audio input from your microphone for use with speech recognition (as well as Messages and FaceTime), check out a microphone with a USB connection. You’ll get far better sound quality than afforded by either your Mac’s built-in microphone or a microphone that connects to your audio jack.
Two different panes in System Preferences make up the speech settings of OS X: the Dictation Commands (which appear in the Accessibility pane) and the Dictation and Text to Speech settings (which appear in the Dictation & Speech pane).
The basics of Dictation
The standard Dictation feature in Yosemite is yet another idea borrowed from the iOS world — in this case, the iPad, where Dictation made its debut. Promo code for leap san macos promise. You can use Dictation to enter the text you speak directly into a text box in any application that supports this feature.
To use the standard Dictation feature, open System Preferences and click the Dictation & Speech icon. Then, on the Dictation tab select the On radio button.
If you have more than one microphone available, click the pop-up menu button at the left side of the pane and choose the microphone you want to use with Dictation. By default, pressing the Function (Fn) key twice starts the text entry; however, you can click the Shortcut pop-up menu to choose another shortcut key. Note that you can also specify the language your Mac uses with Dictation.
When you’re ready to use Dictation, click in the spot where you would normally begin typing, press the keyboard shortcut, and begin speaking. You can press the keyboard shortcut again to turn off Dictation.
The Feedback window
After you activate Dictation with the shortcut key, you instantly see the Feedback window. You can click and drag the window to position it anywhere on your Desktop.
The Feedback window includes a single button and visual cues of its own:
- Microphone Level Meter: The microphone icon in the Feedback window doubles as a meter, showing you how loud the input level to your microphone is.
- Visual Indicator: If a Dictation Command is recognized, the Feedback window displays the command. (You learn more about Dictation Commands shortly.) Like handwriting recognition, 100 percent speech recognition isn’t a reality on any computer at this point, so sometimes it helps to have feedback. Otherwise, you might feel silly shouting at your machine while it sits there doing nothing. (Or perhaps not, if you’re into inexpensive anger management.)
- Done Button: Click this button to exit Dictation.
The Dictation Command controls
Dictation Commands are far more powerful from the standard Yosemite Dictation feature, which simply types what you speak into a field or document. Dictation Commands provide you with true voice control over your Mac: Activate Dictation in the normal manner, but instead of speaking simple text, you speak a Dictation Command phrase.
Your Mac translates what you said — and if it understands the phrase, it then performs an action associated with that phrase.
To get started with true voice control in OS X, you must first install and enable Enhanced Dictation. Display the Dictation tab again, but this time click the Use Enhanced Dictation check box. Because Yosemite has to download the Enhanced Dictation software from Apple — a download of over 1GB at the time of this writing — this is a good time to check your email (or perhaps top off your soda).
There’s another good reason to install Enhanced Dictation: With Enhanced Dictation enabled, your Mac no longer requires an active Internet connection to use Dictation. (A great help to laptop owners who often find themselves “off the grid” and without the Internet.)
After the Enhanced Dictation software has been installed, click the Show All button in the System Preferences window and click the Accessibility icon. Click the Dictation entry in the list to the left, and then click Dictation Commands to display the settings shown.
The Dictation Commands list in the Accessibility pane displays the default speech recognition commands in a number of categories at the left side of the window:
- User: These are commands that you create yourself. (Note that you must select the Enable Advanced Commands check box to create your own commands.) To create a new command, click the Add button (marked with a plus sign) at the bottom of the list.Yosemite prompts you for the custom command phrase (what you actually say), the application that will recognize your custom command, and the action that the application will take when it recognizes the custom command. To save the command, click Done.You can delete a custom command from the User category by selecting it in the list and clicking the Delete button, which is marked with a minus sign.
- Selection: These commands allow you to select words, sentences, paragraphs, or the entire text of a document.
- Navigation: Here you’ll find commands that whisk you to the beginning or end of a selection, word, sentence, or paragraph in a document. You’ll also find a number of commands for scrolling, moving between fields and controls, and even pressing the Esc key.
- Editing: As you might have surmised, these commands control the familiar cut, copy, and paste functions, as well as delete, capitalize, and redo/undo.
- Formatting: Need to bold, italicize, or underline? These commands fit the bill.
- Application: These commands allow you to switch between applications, quit or hide an application, or display a specific menu.
- Document: These commands cover the common actions you’ll take with any document, like opening or saving, minimizing, and closing a document window.
- System: Use these commands to perform a Spotlight search, open the Dictation pane in System Preferences, and stop your Mac from listening for commands.
It’s important to note that you don’t have to press the Dictation shortcut key before speaking a Dictation Command; Yosemite can recognize inline commands in continuous speech — meaning that you can begin dictating text into a document, speak a Dictation Command where necessary, and then return to speaking text!
The Dictation Commands window
Because Yosemite offers so many Dictation Commands, OS X provides you with the Dictation Commands window as a quick reference. The Dictation Commands window contains a single listing of all commands that you might speak at any given time. (Note that the Dictation Commands window offers the same list of commands as the Accessibility pane in System Preferences, but it’s far more convenient to access.)
To open the Dictation Commands window, press the keyboard shortcut to activate Dictation and say Show Commands.
The first three weeks of Yosemite has been painful because Dragon Dictate has not been working properly. It would not read my old profiles and would not let me train a new one without crashing. I rely fairly heavily on Dragon Dictate to do most of my writing/typing so this was a bit of a dud. I was going to write a post on a workaround for this problem, but Nuance released an update today – version 4.0.6 – which fixes the problems. Training is working again and Dragon Dictate has stopped crashing.
Nuance should have had this all worked out before Yosemite was released, but at least we are back in business now.
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ReplyAlexsays:January 21, 2015 at 11:52 am Even with the 4.0.6 update when I dictate into Word 2011 for mac, Word crashes. It does not crash when typing w/o DD4.0.6.
Any thoughts?
ReplyPatsays:January 22, 2015 at 5:30 pm apple stated it could be fixed by reinstalling MS Word. They wanted to charge $149. My crashes also, it did not do this until Yosemite.
ReplyMalcolmsays:February 7, 2015 at 12:21 am Hi Wayne,
Will version of 3.04 of Dragon Dictate work ok on Yosemite?
ReplyRobert Hughessays:April 20, 2015 at 4:09 am I have been using DD for a very long time on a PC and I am new to Mac. I have terrible problems using DD in Yosemite 10.10.3 on an iMac 5k. When I ask it to select text it does not select the correct text. It changes the wrong text after correcting any misrecognised text and it jumps about the page for no apparent reason. It does not recognise the Dragon usb microphone and often will not open my two profiles and I have to add a new one and go through the setup dictation again. It is better with the note pad than with iPages. I do not have word for Mac. Any suggestions? I typed this – it is quicker!
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Waynesays:April 21, 2015 at 4:21 am“When I ask it to select text it does not select the correct text.”
I find that problem too, so I don’t use the select ‘blah’ command as I don’t find it that reliable. Yes it does seems better in the Dragon notepad app.
I find that problem too, so I don’t use the select ‘blah’ command as I don’t find it that reliable. Yes it does seems better in the Dragon notepad app.
Strange with not recognising the microphone or the profiles. I’ve never had that problem. TI won’t open a profile without the correct mic plugged in for ht at profile, so they might be related. Is the mic direct into the iMac (no hub)?
ReplyBobsays:May 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm Basically the same problem as Robert as to recognition of the microphone, mine a plantronics usb bluetooth sold to me by Nuance. It seems to recognize it and says it is hooked up, but when you start to try to actually dictate it says it is not hooked up. I have tried about everything that I can think of. I have used Dragon with Windows since it first came out – every update. Bought a Mac and got version 3. They updated to 4 before I really used Ver 3. Charged full price for Ver. 4. If somebody can tell me a software program that actually works, please do and I will dump Nuance after all these years.
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Bob, I am so with you.
I have just bought the 4.0.6 (because they won’t upgrade my old 3. x) because I upgraded to OS 10.10.4. This has been a pretty terrible experience.
I had to leave behind my huge lovingly-curated vocabulary list because there doesn’t seem to be any way to port it over from 3.x. (If anybody knows of one, PLEASE tell me.)
This version also seems to be markedly more stupid about learning new vocabulary– whenever I give it a new word (that the old version used to know) it takes forever to “update the profile,” meaning I have to stop dead for a few minutes every time I find a new word that I have to teach it…and it doesn’t even learn very well. I can’t tell you how depressing this is.
I have been trying all afternoon to dictate info from medical records into a Pages table, something I used to be able to do routinely. Now for no apparent reason, after several pages of routine entries, the cursor will stop, start jumping around, and erase my last several rows of entries. I can command-Z to get them back, but it’s extremely unnerving. I find if I hit the Stop, then restart, it’s better for a line or two, and then it goes back to doing it again.
Is anybody from Nuance reading this? We are MAD. And I’m with Bob– if there’s something better out there, please tell me.
ReplyJerome Ravetzsays:December 23, 2016 at 8:53 am I have just bought the 4.0.6 (because they won’t upgrade my old 3. x) because I upgraded to OS 10.10.4. This has been a pretty terrible experience.
I had to leave behind my huge lovingly-curated vocabulary list because there doesn’t seem to be any way to port it over from 3.x. (If anybody knows of one, PLEASE tell me.)
This version also seems to be markedly more stupid about learning new vocabulary– whenever I give it a new word (that the old version used to know) it takes forever to “update the profile,” meaning I have to stop dead for a few minutes every time I find a new word that I have to teach it…and it doesn’t even learn very well. I can’t tell you how depressing this is.
I have been trying all afternoon to dictate info from medical records into a Pages table, something I used to be able to do routinely. Now for no apparent reason, after several pages of routine entries, the cursor will stop, start jumping around, and erase my last several rows of entries. I can command-Z to get them back, but it’s extremely unnerving. I find if I hit the Stop, then restart, it’s better for a line or two, and then it goes back to doing it again.
Is anybody from Nuance reading this? We are MAD. And I’m with Bob– if there’s something better out there, please tell me.
For what it is worth, I just now tried dictating from Nuance onto Notes, and it worked brilliantly, far more rapid and smooth than onto Word. I have El Capitan.
ReplyAlsays:Speech Recognition For Mac Yosemite National Park
May 2, 2017 at 7:17 amDragon Dictate does not work with Pages document on macOS Sierra, 10.12.4.