Try turning Speakable Items off and back on again, or switch the listening method from pressing a key to always on. I made a podcast about this and dictation for www.applevis.com, but I don't know if it would be helpful or not. Also, are you running Mavericks? In older versions of OSX I found Speakable Items to be a bit unreliable, but in 10.9 I have only had one small problem so far. On Dec 8, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List,I can’t get speakable items to work. In accessibility it says that > it is turned on, all command check boxes are checked,my internal microphone > is selected,the ESC key is assigned as listen key and yet it doesn’t work. > How long do you have to hold the escape key down for? How do you calibrate > the microphone? I go to calibrate and it gives me a list of phrases which I > presumably have to say but I don’t know how to start it. Are there settings > in other parts of the mac which can stop spekable items from working such as > things to do with the microphone for example,or is the problem likely to be > in si settings themselves? > > Many Thanks, Lee > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn > Sent: 08 December 2013 22:37 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding Applications to the Dock Revisited: Text Edit Isn't > Staying Put > > Hi, > > If the app is running, then navigate to that item on the Dock, press > VO-shift-m, arrow down to Options, right to the sub-menu and choose “Keep in > Dock”. Apps that are running will appear on the Dock when running and > disappear when quit unless you perform this step or if they’ve already been > added from within the Finder. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Dec 8, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have tried multiple times to add Text Edit to the dock, with cmd, ctrl, > shift t. It appears, but when I quit out of Text Edit, then go to the Dock to > open it, it is gone. What gives? Thanks. > Christine > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
