Hot answers tagged voice-dictation
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No. I installed iOS 5.1 on a Wifi iPad 2, and opened the notes app. No microphone icon is displayed on the keyboard as shown in the keynote or as one sees on the iPhone 4S. This means that voice dictation is a iPad (3rd Generation) and iPhone 4S only feature. There may be apps that enable something like this in the App Store.
I can't guess about the lower ...
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No, your speech is still sent to the Siri/Nuance servers for processing, so you can't use dictation without an Internet connection.
An alternative would be to use a third-party dictation app like Dragon Dictate.
While your machine is probably powerful enough to handle conversion (although maybe not as quickly as Apple's servers), it makes a lot of sense ...
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iOS like Dictation...
...currently isn't a native feature of OS X. However, Mountain Lion's new features willl include a system wide speech input.
Mountain Lion will come out this month (July '12). So you might wanna just wait a few more days.
Here's the description by Apple:
Now you can talk anywhere you can type. Dictation converts your words into ...
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As of iOS 5.1, Voice Dictation is not capable of being started from external keyboards.
There is a workaround. The solution is that when you want to dictate, press the ⏏ key (eject) on your external keyboard. This should bring up the virtual keyboard on the screen, from which you can then start dictation.
Note: This key doesn't work like other function ...
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Yes.
With many methods of voice dictation, what happens is that your voice is recorded and digitized, and your speech is broken up into phrases which are uploaded over the Internet to a powerful computer server which translates your speech into text and then transmits the text back to your device.
However, there is a long history of programs for Mac and PC ...
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No.
If you read the Dictation FAQ it's not entirely clear that you always need an active broadband internet connection, but that is how this feature works.
You cannot use it when you are not connected to Apple's servers. There are other software packages that do offline voice transcription, but that's not what is baked into Mountain Lion.
If you read up ...
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The official answer (which clearly isn't the one you want based on how the question is phrased) is no. Dictation on OS X is currently limited to 30 seconds of audio per transcription event.
Mac Basics: Dictation - HT5449
Hopefully this helps others that are looking for an official answer or explanation. If or when someone finds a switch to lengthen ...
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This highlighting "hyperlinks" the text, if the system is unsure of what you said. It will typically take a couple of best guesses, and display them as options from which you can choose from. You can see the suggestions by right-clicking the word or control clicking it.
It also selects the text when you click on it, which allows you to simply type a ...
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You could either edit property lists that store the setting and reopen the DictationIM process:
#!/bin/bash
k="com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMLocaleIdentifier"
if [[ "$(defaults read $k)" == en-US ]]; then
defaults write $k fr-FR
defaults write com.apple.assistant "Session Language" fr-FR
else
defaults write $k ...
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No, this does not work.
I started a background recording with DropVox, then switched over to PlainText and tapped the dictation button and dictated a sentence. I then switched back to DropVox and it looked like it was still recording (the counter was still going up). I stopped it, it uploaded the file, but when I listened to it the start and end were there, ...
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Siri dictation is never going to be 100% accurate and the easiest way to get the result you want may be to edit the text by hand after you've dictated the body of the message.
Jim Rhoades provides a useful list of Siri dictation commands.
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Yes - if your device has no network connection, the Voice Dictation key will not appear on the keyboard.
If your network connection does not route properly to Apple's servers, then you can tap the button and speak, but the three magenta circles that pulse will remain on screen until the iPad can get a response from the servers or you cancel the input.
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The following conditions must be met in order for dictation to work:
You must be connected to the Internet for dictation to work.
You shouldn't be using audio on your device (e.g. if you are on a FaceTime call, the button will not appear.)
You must be focused in an text field which is formatted for normal text (more about this below.)
Developers (and ...
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OK, so a possible workflow is thus:
Record audio file
Transfer audio file to iPhone or iPod touch
Sit iPhone/iPod touch next to iPad
Get text editor app set up to transcribe on iPad
Play audio via speakers on iPhone/iPod touch
Generate transcript of audio file
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This is just a work around and I don't own Mountain Lion yet, so I can't test it myself, but I bet it will work. In all likelihood, each user on a given computer can turn Dictation on or off independent of the other users and Dictation only sends information from whichever user account is currently active.
When I get Mountain Lion, I will set up a second ...
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I had the same problem and it drove me crazy! This helped me:
Go to ~/Library/Preferences
( ⇧+⌘+G )
Locate com.apple.assistant.plist and move it to the Trash
Open Dictation & Speech preference panel, disable dictation
Reboot
Re-enable Dictation & Speech.
Voila!
PS This hint has the nicest side-effect: In Mail, all accounts used to ...
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Changing the actions of double-presses of modifier keys is probably impossible. There isn't even a code point for the fn key in CORPCHAR.TXT.
But if you're looking to add a different shortcut for toggling speech, you should be looking for method names instead of shortcut strings.
I tried using strings to find method names for starting dictation. ...
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Are you just using the dictation feature (the microphone button on the keyboard), or sending email or texts/iMessages through Siri (holding down the home button, telling Siri to send a message…)?
If you're using the Siri function, when it prompts you if you want to send it, you can ask Siri to "read it to me" or "review it" and it will be read back to you.
...
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There are four things that you can try:
Disable Siri
You can disable Dictation by disabling Siri. Navigate to Settings > General > Siri and turn Siri "Off".
Update PList File
However, understandably, you may want to use Siri, and since you have a jailbroken phone, this appears possible by editing a .plist.
As per this MacRumors post, edit the file ...
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The blue underline allows you to control click and select from alternate transcriptions of the sounds for that phrase.
The blue underline is similar to the red underline that appears when the system detects alternate suggestions for a typed word.
In this case, it might have a high confidence that you could have said one of several phrases and offers you ...
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If you set up your iPhone this way (original instructions here), you can triple-click your Home button to activate VoiceOver, which is an accessibility feature primarily intended for reading the screen and other interactions for disabled users:
Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility
Change Triple-click Home to VoiceOver:
If you turn that on while ...
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You can assign a custom shortcut for toggling speech in System Preferences:
There's probably a better way to do this with VoiceOver, but this would speak lines as they are added.
set spoken to ""
repeat
tell application "Terminal"
set c to contents of window 1
end tell
repeat while c ends with linefeed
set c to text 1 thru -2 ...
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Not sure if this helps but someone developped a "Dictation Switcher" a little utility that sits in your Mac's menu bar and makes using Dictation even easier. it can be found here: http://fouquet.me/apps/dictationswitcher/
Understand you had the pleasure to write your own script but just in case, I thought this might help... :-)
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I found a thread in which the following Applescript was contained:
tell application "System Events" to set p to (path to frontmost application) as string
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
...
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If it's different between two machines, the most likely issue is the microphone. Are you using the built in Mic on the iMac? If so, try an external one. Also take into account any noise sources around your iMac such as fans, air conditioners, etc.
The other possibility is that you're just getting bad luck with the dictation service. Because it's dependent ...
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No. It does not work offline.
And when it is online it sends personal data to Apple which in - my view - have nothing todo with speech recognition.
(By the way it makes a lot of sense NOT TO send data to Apple: You may want to use time when you are offline for dictation; rules of professional secrecy may bar you from sending data to Apple; and programs ...
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The setup in the video is quite impressive. I imagine that there was a lot of customization necessary to have the software work that way. Dragon Dictate works with vim for inserting text (I just tested this myself), but it doesn't do as well at navigation or editing the text, and it certainly can't do all the fancy code insertion straight out of the box. I ...
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I've had a look in developer docs and I don't think it's possible for any app to do this. I was thinking of a line input recording audio while Voice Dictation processes input from the built-in mic - but the developer docs don't show me any way to select which audio input is active at any one time.
There is only a simple boolean available to AVAudioSession, ...
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