[Athen] Voice Recognition on the Macintosh

[foreigntype at gmail.com]

Robert,

I knew that Dragon was no longer supported on Macs. That's been several
years. For students (and others) with MacBooks, one can partition the hard
drive and install a parallel OS with Windows and DNS 15.0 individual
professional on the parallel system. It's almost more trouble than it's
worth though because one must still be able to copy & paste / transfer docs
& files from the WIN OS to the Mac OS.

The addition of the voice commands to the built-in dictation for the Macs
is a great addition to the replacement of Dragon with a speech to text app
that is *beginning* to catch up to the sophisticated level of Dragon. Let's
hope these developments continue to roll out!

Wink
Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive
quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .


On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:07 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>
wrote:


> Thanks for this, Wink.  I'd like to add that MacOS Catalina or later must

> be installed on the Mac before the Voice Control feature will be

> available.  Also, Dragon is no longer supported on Mac.

>

> Robert

>

>

> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:45 PM foreigntype at gmail.com <

> foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> David et al ATHEN-ites

>>

>> Here's a very well done tutorial on how to use the voice commands to

>> control the iPad or other Mac devices. It includes a "cheat sheet" for

>> what-can-I-say commands, how to activate a numbered screen grid for

>> navigating the screen by voice, and lots more.

>>

>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210539

>>

>> Wink

>> Wink Harner

>> Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production

>> The Foreign Type

>>

>> Portland OR

>> foreigntype at gmail.com

>> 480-984-0034

>>

>> This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive

>> quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .

>>

>>

>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM Schwarte, David M. <schwarte at purdue.edu>

>> wrote:

>>

>>> Hello Everyone,

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> I have a student who needs to use voice recognition on the Macintosh for

>>> both typing and mouse commands.  It has been a few years since I have

>>> looked into this.  We used to have a license for Dragon NaturallySpeaking

>>> for Macintosh.  I think the current best option would be to use the build

>>> in voice recognition. .  Is this still true?  If so, are there any good

>>> tutorials for learning to use the voice command features on the Mac?  I

>>> remember this being somewhat confusing, when I looked at it, since there

>>> was a separate utility for commands and a Siri for voice.

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> Thanks,

>>>

>>> David Schwarte

>>>

>>>

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