Hi,. It appears you are talking about dictation and this is different from speakable items. That one allows to control the computer using voice commands but is not very stable..
Best,. Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com, on iTunes or most online stores. Sent from my phone On Aug 22, 2012, at 2:03 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems to be working well for me. I do tend to turn it off once I've finished > dictating by pressing the same shortcut key once and then I hear a little > blip which I am guessing tells me that it has gone off. The only thing is > that it switches itself off if I have a longer passage to dictate. I do > however wonder whether it only handles a short passage at a time and has some > kind of time limit, or whether it is a bug. Maybe somebody else could confirm > this. It is quite wonderful though when you say "new paragraph" you actually > get new paragraph, and you can instruct it to insert punctuation as you > dictate. > > Andrew > On 22 Aug 2012, at 03:43, Eric Caron <ecar...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Hi listers, >> >> I've been playing with Speakable items a bit and find it is working well >> for me over all. My major frustration is that if I don't use it for awhile >> I need to go back to system preferences and turn it off and on again. then >> it works fine for a time. Later it stops and again I need to turn it back >> on again. >> >> Is anyone else having this problem? anyone found a way to keep it working? >> I don't want it to be on listen continuously as it will then do unexpected >> things. I do fine with the key word but then suddenly it stops working and >> once I turn it off and on it works perfectly again. >> >> tips are greatly appreciated. >> >> Eric Caron >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
