Control Your Mac By Your Voice
Some of the coolest features on Mac OS X are the toughest ones to find, one in particular is Speech Recognition.
- Open up System Preferences.
- Once it loads up, go to the Speech preference pane.
- In the Speech Recognition window, turn Speakable Items on.
- Now you should see a small grey circle appear somewhere on your screen.
- Hold down the Listening Key or in my case the “esc” key andsay something like “what time is it”?
- To see all of the speech commands, click on a small upside down triangle on the grey circle.
- You can do a whole lot with Speech Recognition like play a game of chess, listen to a document, quit applications, send mail, and more.
- If you don’t prefer the voice of the speaker go back to the Speech preference pane in System Preferences and select the Text To Speech tab.
- In the System Voice list, choose a different speaker.
- To quit Speech Recognition, open up the Speech preference pane in System Preferences and turn Speakable Items off.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Great post, thanks for the info!
April 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
You’re very welcome.