Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi All, So I know there is speech recognition on the mac, and I have quite a few questions about it. 1. Is it compatible with Voice Over? 2. How does it work with VO? 3. How good is the quality of it, how is it with picking up your words and writing them correctly. Thanks. becky and Onyx --

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Jon Cohn
Becky, THe built in speech recognition on the Macintosh does not recognize words, it recognises phrases. So you could for example hold down the escape key and say switch to system preferences You would then hear a click and System Preferences would be launched. If you want dictation, then

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Friends, I am using Snow Leopard on an IMac.friend of mine, has suffered a loss of finger dexterity. She is blind I thought the native spreech recognition software on the IMac would be useful. The speech recognition software is also known as Speakable Items. It is found on the