Bill, Did you use Mac Dictation or Nuance for your email?
Cheers, Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Apr 2016, at 4:23 PM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > I use Nuance Dragon. If I needed “enjo” I would not say en yo.rather en jo > and correct the result. However if I wanted to write a chemical word I would > split it up. However, Mac Diustation is so slow and makes so many mistakes I > cannot use it. > > Bill > > >> On 14 Apr 2016, at 18:48, gdorn@me <gd...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Can dictation "learn" words >> >> in appleworks, I use to be able to add words to dictionary - ie English >> spelling >> >> Does dictation have a similar capability. >> >> Eg. try saying " Enjo" and see what you get ( we usually get " you know" >> >> chow >> >> gdorn >> gd...@mac.com >> >> >> >>> On 14/04/2016, at 10:39 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: >>> >>> Hi Kaye, >>> >>> Is she trying to access the “show Commands” this way? >>> To see a list of all the commands you can access, activate Dictation (press >>> fn fn), wait for the beep, and then say “Show commands” >>> >>> When you're dictating, pause before saying a command. Otherwise, OS X may >>> interpret it as dictation. >>> >>> Check in System Preferences > Accessibility and choose Dictation in the >>> list to the left. >>> Click 'Dictation Commands' and then select the 'Enable Advanced Commands' >>> option. >>> Click done in the preference pane to activate advanced commands. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>> >>> >>>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 8:29 AM, kaye and geoff <k...@kgweb.org.au> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a friend with failing eyesight who is using Enhanced Dictation >>>> under El Capitan. Until recently everything worked well, but now the >>>> spoken request "Show Commands" returns a formatted screen with no commands >>>> listed. She normally dictates in French, but we switched to English (and >>>> to Spanish) and tried them with the same result. Dictation continues to >>>> work - it responds to the spoken commands and produces documents from >>>> spoken dictation in all three languages - but she can no longer get a list >>>> of the commands available to be recognised. >>>> >>>> Has anyone else seen this behaviour or have any idea of where we start >>>> looking to get her commands displayed. She is unaware of doing anything >>>> that may have caused the problem, and I can't find anything in her >>>> settings that could turn off displaying the commands. >>>> >>>> Cheers, Kaye >>>> ------------------------ >>>> Kaye and Geoff >>>> k...@kgweb.org.au >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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