The key you designate is a push-to-tlak key of sorts. You press it down, speak, then release it. I don't know if you were doing that or not, but it sounds like you were just pressing the key and letting it go. When callibrating, you simply speak the phrases until you hear the sound every time (I haven't tried this yet but am taking it from a message in a different thread). Let us know how it works out. On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex and Others, > > Okay, I went to System Preferences, Accessibility and found the Speakable > Items option. I checked the 6 options that were available. I then managed > to access the Listening Key and tried a variety of key combinations, but > settled on F10 since others seem to be having success with that key. Now, > how do I get these commands to work? I restarted my system, and when > pressing F10, I hear an error tone I thought I could say "what time is it" > anywhere when the system is running? What am I missing? > > Les > On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:30 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. > 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. 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