It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close. Devon Delfino. You can dictate on a Mac computer so that your computer types out your speech. But before you can start using dictation, you'll have to enable it via your Mac's System Preferences, and decide the shortcut you'll use to turn it on, as well as the language it will dictate in.
Here's how to set up and use the dictation feature on a Mac computer. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Devon Delfino is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist specializing in personal finance, culture, politics, and identity.
Follow her on Twitter at devondelfino. Insider Inc. Additional comments. Email optional. Over time, the system should get better at recognizing your voice, and you can also train it by right-clicking on the Speech Recognition console, choosing Configuration, and clicking Improve Speech Recognition.
With Speech Recognition, you can control all kinds of computer actions, including launching programs and searching the computer, using only your voice. If that appeals to you, you can set the program to launch automatically whenever you start Windows: Just right-click on the app, choose Options, and hit Run at Startup. Then click the microphone button and start talking. Click the microphone again to turn off voice dictation. For a full list of all the supported commands, including ones for punctuation and formatting, head to the Microsoft support document.
While Windows Speech Recognition has been around for years, Microsoft recently introduced a free, experimental dictation plug-in for Microsoft Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint, called Dictate. Follow that link to download it, and then relaunch Microsoft Word. Now, you should see a new Dictation tab on the ribbon menu. To begin speaking words on the page, open this tab and click the Start button. In our experience, Dictate is not quite as accurate as Windows Speech Recognition, but the application is in its early days and may improve over time.
And it does have the advantage of being built right into Word itself. Right now, the clear market leader is Dragon for PC. Thanks to many years of development, it boasts a fantastic level of voice-recognition accuracy, and it fits neatly into all of your Windows applications, including Word. As with Windows, macOS includes an integrated voice dictation system that works with any program, including Microsoft Word and the proprietary Apple Pages word processor.
Chances are that you need to add punctuation to your dictation to make sure it's formatted correctly. This is easy to do while dictating your text by saying the particular punctuation marks you want to add. Hello comma my name is Dan period how are you question mark.
Apple includes a long list of over 50 punctuation marks, typography symbols, currency signs, mathematical signs, and voice commands you can use with Dictation in the macOS user guide. Visit Apple's voice dictation commands page to take a look at the list yourself. Along with adding punctuation, you can also use a small set of voice commands to change the formatting of dictated text on your Mac. These commands include capitalization, line breaks, and even typing without spaces. Dictation is a fairly simple tool, but it doesn't work all the time.
There are a few different problems that might stop you from being able to use Dictation on your Mac. Here's what they are and how to fix them. If nothing happens when you double-press the Fn button, you might have changed the Dictation shortcut on your Mac. You can change this shortcut to whatever you like, or check what the new shortcut is and use that instead.
Open the Shortcut dropdown menu and choose the dictation shortcut you want to use. To create your own, click Customize , then press the keyboard shortcut you'd like. Your Mac requires an active internet connection to use Dictation. This is because Apple processes your voice on its serversusing the latest language datarather than locally on your Mac. Without an internet connection, the microphone icon appears with three dots in it, but vanishes before you can start dictating.
To make sure your internet connection is working, try streaming a video on YouTube. To fix problems with your connection, restart your Wi-Fi router and follow our steps to get your Mac connected to Wi-Fi again.
Contact your internet service provider for more help. As you dictate, you should see a white bar in the microphone icon that fluctuates with the loudness of your voice.
This shows the microphone input on your Mac. If nothing appears in the microphone, your Mac can't hear you. You need to use a different microphone to fix it.
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