Hi guys,
I'm running out the door, but I've made nice progress. Still can't activate
recognition via a spoken word, but am successful using the Esc key. I have to
run, but let's just say that Esther's question wasn't so daft. I know that
radio btn was on last night, but somehow, in my subsequent playing around, I
must have switched it to off. Amazing what a difference it makes. LOL
Will keep everyone posted as I continue to experiment, and Esther, thanks for
taking the time to mess around with this.
Best,
Donna
On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Esther wrote:Ð
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> 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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