With just my voice I can quickly search through hundreds of documents for a single file or check for free disk space if I'm running out of storage, but the intelligent personal assistant does have its limitations. I haven’t tried dictation in Mojave or Catalina yet since my modern mini has no microphone, but all of the preferences look the same.I hardly ever use Siri on my iPhone, but boy, oh boy, do I take advantage on my Mac. It might time out after awhile if you wander off or spend a lot of time just thinking, but mine has just been open and idle for about 5 minutes and is still there. I may have installed a conflict of some sort.Ĭlicking the mouse and otherwise editing via mouse and keyboard doesn’t dismiss dictation on either el cap or sierra.
In principle it should work the same way on Sierra, but for for some reason instead of editing it just parrots back the editing commands on my system. Editing by voice was easy on El Cap, though you need to turn on “Enable advanced commands” in Accessibility/Dictation/Dictation Commands… There’s a list of the editing commands there, and you can keep a list open while dictating for reference. I do download ‘enhanced dictation’ for offline use (a GB or two depending on system). I haven’t experienced any time limitation with dictation for MacOS–through Sierra anyway. As a result, you cannot dictate a document, or even more than a paragraph or two, without having to restart dictation by tapping that microphone button.Įditing after the fact is much easier on the Mac, of course, but you can’t so much as click the mouse while dictating without stopping the dictation. This makes it much easier surf the web completely hands-free.Īnother problem with dictation in iOS and macOS is that it works for only a certain amount of time-about 60 seconds (iOS) or 40 seconds (macOS) in my testing. Show numbers in Safari now numbers links on web pages. In addition to the new commands, Big Sur Voice Control seems to be quicker. Note: Accessibility category is brand new in Big Sur. The new commands by category are as follows: There are a few new commands in macOS Big Sur beta 1. Unfortunately no spelling commands/mode yet. I need to make the correction by voice and if Voice Control has spelling functionality I could make the correction by voice.
So if Voice Control misrecognizes a word, and does not have an appropriate alternative in its correction list, I can’t just grab the keyboard and type in the appropriate word. Specifically looking for the spelling command/mode I’ve been asking for.
I went through the command list to see if Voice Control had any new commands. I coughed up the money for a developer account, and downloaded and installed it on Tuesday, because I was keenly interested in what new functionality/features Apple added to Voice Control. MacOS Big Sur beta 1 was released at WWDC on Monday, June 29, 2020.
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