{"id":47982,"date":"2019-04-27T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=47982"},"modified":"2019-04-30T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:59:43","slug":"how-to-use-the-dictation-features-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/47982-how-to-use-the-dictation-features-on-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Dictation features on your Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-48018 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-190x190.jpg\" alt=\"Mac Dictation\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-284x284.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-120x120@2x.jpg 240w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mac-Dictation-284x284@2x.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><br \/>\nRemember MacSpeech Dictate and Dragon Dictate? Once they were the methods you had to use for dictation on your Mac. Now it\u2019s something you can do with an Apple desktop or laptop right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>But first a little history.&nbsp;MacSpeech Dictate was a speech recognition program developed for Mac OS X (which is now, of course, simply macOS). The first version of MacSpeech Dictate was released in March 2008 after being showcased at the Macworld Conference &amp; Expo (anyone remember those?) in 2008 and winning the Macworld 2008 Best Of Show award.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On September 20, 2010, Nuance Communications, which acquired MacSpeech in February 2010, released a new version of the product, renaming it &#8220;Dragon Dictate for Mac.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mac support for the product was dropped in October 2018 several years after Apple added \u201cbuilt-in\u201d dictation capabilities for the platform via its own Dictation feature, which converts your spoken words into text.<\/p>\n<p><b>Setting up Dictation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Setting up Dictation is easy. Choose Apple (\uf8ff) menu &gt; System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click&nbsp;Dictation. Turn on&nbsp;Dictation, then you must choose:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;Whether to use Enhanced Dictation, which lets you use dictation when you&#8217;re not connected to the Internet. More on that in a sec.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;Your language and dialect. Some languages, such as English, have multiple dialects such as my Southern accent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;The keyboard shortcut you want to use to start start dictating.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;The microphone you wish to use; your choices will be shown from the pop-up menu below the microphone icon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48009\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-284x248.png\" alt=\"Mac Dictation\" width=\"640\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-284x248.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-137x120.png 137w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-190x166.png 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one.png 1334w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-284x248@2x.png 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-137x120@2x.png 274w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graph-one-190x166@2x.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also another, faster way. In macOS Sierra and higher, you can&nbsp;ask Siri&nbsp;to \u201cturn on Dictation\u201d for you. Don\u2019t be confused. Siri isn&#8217;t the same as Dictation, but you can&nbsp;ask the personal digital assistant to compose short messages, such as email and text messages.<\/p>\n<p>When you turn on Dictation, you can use your voice to enter text on your Mac. You can also use dictation commands to tell your Mac what to do, like \u201dundo that\u201d&nbsp;or \u201dselect the previous sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most dictation commands turn on automatically when you&nbsp;turn on Enhanced Dictation. Turn on Dictation, then select&nbsp;\u201cUse Enhanced Dictation.\u201d You can now get a list of commands and select the ones that you want to use. There\u2019s also another method:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48011 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two.png\" alt=\"Mac Dictation\" width=\"640\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two.png 640w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-137x120.png 137w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-284x248.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-190x166.png 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-137x120@2x.png 274w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-284x248@2x.png 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dictate-graphic-two-190x166@2x.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A list of dictation commands opens. Use the checkboxes to turn commands on or off. Click a command to see which phrases work with that command. For example, \u201cUndo that\u201d works with several phrases, including \u201cUndo this&#8221; and \u201cScratch that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Select \u201cEnable advanced commands\u201d to get additional commands.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to use Dictation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To make your Mac listen for Dictation commands, press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation. The default shortcut is &#8220;Fn Fn&#8221; (press the Fn key twice). Alternatively, you can turn on the option \u201cEnable the dictation keyword phrase,\u201d which is next to the Dictation Commands button. You can then speak the dictation keyword phrase to let your Mac know that the next thing you say after the keyword phrase will be a dictation command.<\/p>\n<p>You can then speak any of the phrases that work with a dictation command. You can even say \u201cShow commands\u201d to open a window that shows you all the available<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Dictation commands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that you\u2019re ready to dictate, open a document or text field and put the insertion point at the spot where you want to dictate text. Press &#8220;Fn Fn&#8221; or choose &#8220;Edit &gt; Start Dictation.&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can tell if&nbsp;your Mac is listening if it\u2019s showing a microphone in&nbsp;the left or right of the page,&nbsp;aligned with the insertion point. If you\u2019ve enabled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT203085\">advanced dictation commands<\/a>, the microphone appears in the lower-right corner of your screen, and you can drag it to another position.<\/p>\n<p>Say the words that you want your Mac to type.&nbsp;The more you use the feature, the&nbsp;more it learns the characteristics of your voice and the better it works.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re finished dictating, click &#8220;Done&#8221; below the microphone icon, press Fn once, or switch to another window.<\/p>\n<p><b>Create your own commands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once you become comfortable using Dictation, you may wish to create your own commands. Select \u201cEnable advanced commands,\u201d and a \u201c+\u201d Add&nbsp;button appears beneath the list of commands. Click it to add an&nbsp;\u201cundefined command\u201d to the list of commands.<\/p>\n<p>Click the undefined command to select it, then configure these options:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0 <i>When I say:<\/i>&nbsp;Enter the word or phrase that you want to speak to perform the action.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;<i>While using:<\/i>&nbsp;Choose whether your Mac performs the action only when you&#8217;re using a particular app.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b0&nbsp;<i>Perform:<\/i>&nbsp;Choose the action to perform. You can open a Finder item, open a URL, paste text, paste data from the clipboard, press a keyboard shortcut, select a menu item, or run an Automator workflow.<\/p>\n<p>There you go. Now you\u2019re a regular Dictate-or on your Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember MacSpeech Dictate and Dragon Dictate? Once they were the methods you had to use for dictation on your Mac. Now it\u2019s something you can do with an Apple desktop or laptop right out of the box. 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