[Athen] Voice Recognition on the Macintosh

[Schwarte, David M.]

Thanks to everyone for the information about voice recognition.  It is great to know that the built-in speech recognition has gotten better, especially since Dragon has discontinued its Macintosh product.

Thanks,
David Schwarte


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Subject: Re: [Athen] Voice Recognition on the Macintosh

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
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:07 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu<mailto: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<mailto:foreigntype at gmail.com> <foreigntype at gmail.com<mailto: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
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480-984-0034
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM Schwarte, David M. <schwarte at purdue.edu<mailto: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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