Voice dictation is the ability to interpret human speech and transcribe it into text for use in applications.
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Will voice dictation work on iPad 2?
Will the voice dictation technology built into iOS 5.1 running on the new iPad be made available on the iPad 2?
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Can I use Dictation in OS X Mountain Lion offline?
There is a new feature in Mountain Lion, Dictation.
When I try to enable it in the System Preferences, I get the following dialog:
In other words, what Dictation does is just record your voice and ...
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Activitate Voice Dictation from Bluetooth Keyboard
Getting to know my new iPad and I really like the voice dictation, but I can't figure out how to activate it from my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. My workaround is to turn off the keyboard so I get the ...
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Daemons or other processes responsible for dictation in 10.8?
Dictation in Mountain Lion is a nice little feature that works great for me. However I often need to switch between dictation languages, so going through the System Preferences is way too many clicks ...
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How to turn off the dictation beep?
For dictation on OS X, you have double-tap a key (I've set mine to fn) to start dictating. It then does a very irritating beep noise. And when you hit return, it does another very irritating beep ...
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How can I change the language for dictation on the fly?
With English not being my first language, I usually need support for at least two languages when using features like auto-correct and dictation.
Is it possible to toggle the language which is used ...
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Can I do iOS like dictation on OS X Lion?
Dictation on the iPad is great.
I can use Dragon Tree etcetera but would like to use an iPad like voice dictation program instead for simple tasks.
Can I do the same thing on my OS X 10.7.4 iMac?
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Can the new iPad record dictation while recording audio?
Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and ...
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Dictation not working
I have enabled dictation in the preferences, but it fails to start.
When I tap fn fn, the Icon with three dots appears, and quickly disappears. I don't see a microphone.
My system is connected to ...
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How to prevent dictation from accessing/sending your contacts?
I have just read this article about the privacy concerns when using dictation in Mountain Lion. The article points out part of the disclaimer:
“When you dictate text, what you say is sent to Apple ...
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Why does voice dictation not always appear on the new iPad?
The new iPad supports voice dictation for voice input, but apparently only sometimes. I understand that some things should not support it, such as password inputs and URLs, for example. What dictates ...
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Speech recognition in iOS periodically fails - beep does not sound after hitting microphone button
This problem has occurred on my iPhone 5 with all versions of iOS that have been available for it.
When you want to do voice dictation you hit the microphone key on the keyboard, the microphone ...
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Does Voice Dictation on the New iPad require a network connection?
Does the the new iPad's voice dictation require a network connection? I ask because Siri does require an active network connection and I am wondering if voice dictation works in a similar manner.
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What is the dotted blue underlining when I use dictation on OS X?
When I use the dictation feature in OS X, sometimes some of my text has got dotted blue underlining below it after entry:
What does this mean? Am I able to use it to correct the mistakes in the ...
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How to increase the Apple Dictation timeout?
When using dictation on OS X 10.8, if I speak for too long (approx 20 seconds+), the dictation times out and switches off. Worse, it loses (i.e. doesn't "type") all the things I've said so far. This ...
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Has anybody used Dragon Dictate on OS X with MacVIM
I'm a Ruby on Rails developer and I've seen a very intriguing video of a developer using Dragon Dictate on Windows to do software development. I'm a long-time OS X / VIM user and I am wondering if ...
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How to correct spelling in Dictation on new iPad (3rd generation)
The Dictation feature on iPad (3rd generation) insists that Clare is spelled Claire, and I have been unable to find a way to correct this, other than manually placing the cursor, which is fiddly and ...
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Is it possible to ask Siri to read dictated text?
Speech recognition is very useful - when I'm driving I always use it for dictating text to my iPhone 5.
However, before sending the message I like to check that the text was recognized correctly. ...
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Is there a list of punctuation commands for iPad dictation?
I'm sure Apple has published something similar for Siri, but now that the iPad dictation is out, where can I find a list of commands for dictation? Can I do things like hit the enter key, or type ...
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Use Mac OS X dictation on a file?
In Mountain Lion, Mac OS X can use its dictation/voice recognition to turn your speaking into text.
Suppose I have an audio file of my voice speaking. Is there a way to use this dictation ability to ...
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Dictate and speak/read text from Terminal
I have an idea in mind for a Terminal command I run often. I haven't found answers to these on my own, and they all have to do with voice/dictation:
Dictation in Terminal
Can I dictate to the ...
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Dictation always quits after about ten seconds no matter what I do
I like dictation but after I turn it on in, say, Text-Edit, it records for about ten seconds, then I get the three dots instead of the Microphone icon. Here, I'll see if I can dictate right here, and ...
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How to disable voice dictation on an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1 or later?
When the keyboard is active on my iPhone 4S (running jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 / 6.1.1), there is a key between the space bar and the numeric entry toggle. This key has a microphone on it and tapping it ...
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“DefaultKeyBinding” Hex code for ML's “⌘ ⌘” Start Dictation command?
I have a set customized keyboard bindings located in a plist file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.Dict which works with Hex keys like..
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */
or ...
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Why does dictation on my MacBook Pro record my words fine but not on my iMac?
The dictation in Mountain Lion on my iMac does not record many of the words I speak.
I cannot get it to make a paragraph, either on my desktop, nor my MacBook Pro.
Why does dictation on my MacBook ...
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Does (or when will) the Google Chrome browser support speech recognition on the iPad?
I tried testing the Google Chrome browser's speech recognition on the iPad2.
Doesn't show the little microphone (see the bottom of this test page)
It it simply not supported? Or only on iPad3 or ...
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Using dictation in the command line (e.g. transcribe an audio recording to a text file)
I have some audio recordings and would like to transcribe them into text files. I was wondering whether there is a command line tool that could use the built-in Dictation to do that? And if so, is ...
