Hi Frank, Pete, Donna, and Others,
Donna is trying to use "Speakable Items". This is a setting that can
be enabled under System Preferences > Speech under the Speech
Recognition tab. Since she was able to calibrate the Internal
Microphone and have it respond to her spoken commands (e.g., "What
time is it?", "Quit this application", and other test phrases), her
Mac is capable of recognizing the commands, if she has "Speakable
Items" enabled (by selecting the Radio buttons to turn this "On" on
the Speech Recognition tab). The "Calibrate" button also lets you
adjust the volume slider on your selected input source (e.g.,
"Internal Mic") before or after you speak the test phrases.
OK, one more suggestion. Are you pressing the "Escape" button, which
is the default "Listening Key", when you issue your commands? If you
have a "Speech Feedback" window when you navigate to "Finder" in the
Dock, and then bring up window chooser menu (VO-F2 twice), (e.g.,
result of setting the radio button for "Speakable Items" to "On" in
the Speech Recognition tab); and if you are using the default
Listening method (radio button set to "Listen only while key is
pressed"), with the default listening key ("Escape"), then holding
down the Escape key while you speak commands like "What time is it?"
into the internal mic should result in the system telling you the time.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:26, Frank Ventura wrote:
Donna, this is a real longshot here but is the correct audio input
device selected in the Audio tab of the Sound applet of System
Preferences and is the volume turned up and mute off? I think one time
my input device got switched to something else.
Frank Ventura
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Subject: Re: where is the built-in mike on the MBP?
It's tiny, about the size of a pinhead, but made up with about 20
small
holes. I've found it with my 6x bioptic, and a 2x magnifier.
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