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Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Dictation changes in Catalina – for the worse?

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Mojave’s effective Enhanced Dictation is gone in Catalina, replaced by Voice Control. In some ways that’s better, but not for dictation.

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Opening access: Text ↔︎ Speech

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Do these match the abilities of a human yet, or are they still only for those with impairments, or as novelties?

December 9, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Opening access: entering text without a keyboard

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A thorough account of Dictation in El Capitan, and how you can use your Mac despite having RSI, etc.

December 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Opening access: the Accessibility pane in El Capitan

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Many of us visual, hearing, and/or control issues with our Macs. Here is a guided exploration of the Accessibility pane and what it has to offer us.

December 1, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Blue dots of dictation

I like OS X’s dictation facility, but cannot get it to offer me replacement text for words or phrases which it underlines with blue dots. What do I need to tweak?

May 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Lost in Transcription

Can the Mac produce a transcribed account of important meetings using Dictation, or would an audio typist be better?

April 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology
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