I do not know about foot switches but have a suggestion which may help in the meantime.
1. open iTunes and start the audio recording of dictation in that app. 2. Press FN F8 to pause the playing. 3. Open TextEdit or whatever Word Processor you are using. 4. I would recommend adjusting typing echo to none or words to reduce conflict between Voiceover audio and dictation audio using VO V for verbosity. 5. Whilst in TextEdit press FN F8 to resume the dictation and start typing in TextEdit. Press FN F8 to pause the dictation at any time. 6. You may want to consider changing Function keys from software to hardware in system preferences to make this even easier by a press of the F8 key. This is much more efficient than command tabbing between TextEdit and iTunes. David Griffith > On 23 Jan 2015, at 08:03, BobH. <[email protected]> wrote: > > A bluetooth foot switch would have a lot more uses than that, if it existed > at all. > > RobH, fascinated to see what comes of this. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Dierckens" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:42 PM > Subject: Using a footswitch for dictation > > > Hi all. > A recent student just called me regarding a question. If anyone has an > answer to this question, please email me off list and I can get you in touch > with her. > She recently got asked to do some transcription work for her church. A lady > suggested to her that she get a footswitch for dictation. Now, her question > is this. Which is a good model that will work with voiceover, one that can > play/stop, and rewind in small increments. > Thanks for all your help. > > God bless. :) > Matthew Dierckens > Certified Assistive Technology Specialist > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 > work email: > [email protected] > Personal email: > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
