Wow, this is really cool! I had tried to work with speakable items in Lion, but had had no luck. So I was pretty pessimistic when this thread started. But they really do work much better in Mountain Lion. This is very cool! Once again the Mac solution way outshines using Dragon with Windows. Cheers, Donna On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did you restart? That is also helping out it seems. The front window thing is > not necessary, it's just nice so you can, for instance, speak the name of a > button and have that button activated. For instance, as I type this, a "send" > button is somewhere in the dialog. I could just hold down f10 (or whatever > key I chose for speakable objects) and say "send" and it would do it. You can > find this in the dictation and speech item of system preferences. Go there, > select "speakable objects" from the table, vo-right to the three tabs, > activate the commands tab, then find the next table. Here you can use the > checkboxes in the first column to turn on or off the items in the second. I > just turned everything on, but you can turn on and off whatever you like. By > the way, the "listening key" tab is where you can change your key. Let us > know if you have problems. > On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Jeff Berwick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am having intermittent success with this….By intermittent, I mean it >> worked for me once. I remember seeing somebody say that you needed to check >> off something about in front windows or applications and saw this once, I >> can't, however, find this again. >> >> Can anybody direct me? >> >> Thx, >> Jeff >> >> On 2012-07-30, at 9:07 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys >>> Does anybody know why it makes a difference if you reassigned your key to >>> F10 as some people have done already? I haven't done that, and I seem to be >>> having a problem at times. What is the reason for reassigning it? Also if >>> you have a MacBook Pro, can you use the F10 key by itself without the FN >>> key? >>> >>> Eugenia Firth >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Alex, >>>> >>>> This is great info! I think I'm missing a step, perhaps I've been hacking >>>> around too long and I'm suffering from Information Overload. I went into >>>> System preferences and made certain Speakable Items were turned on. But >>>> I'm unable to find the subsequent dialogs you spoke of. Can you help? >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Les >>>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I, too, set my speakable objects key to f10, restarted the mac, and now >>>>> it is working. Here's what I discovered so far: >>>>> "switch to [app name]" will switch you to an app, provided that app is >>>>> already running. >>>>> "open [app name]" will open an app not already open, including >>>>> third-party apps you install, not just the ones the mac comes with. >>>>> "what time is it" will speak the current time. >>>>> "what's today's date" will speak the date >>>>> "quit this application" will close the currently focused app; "hide this >>>>> application" does the same but minimizes it >>>>> There are more commands which you can get to by saying "show me what to >>>>> say". Interact with the table, then interact with the item you want. >>>>> VO-right to the "collapsed" item and vo-space on it to expand, then stop >>>>> interacting and move right until you get to the commands list. If nothing >>>>> else, I love the time and app focusing commands. Also, in the preferences >>>>> dialog for speakable items, you can enable front window, which lets you >>>>> speak the name of a control in the currently focused window to be >>>>> activated or switched to, I'm not sure how that works yet. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Have a great day, >>>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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