How to Set up Voice Commands on Mac OS

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Tip 1 - Control Your Mac With Voice Commands & Better Dictation In OS X Yosemite

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Roy Stout | permalink

You once needed expensive software and a lesson in patience to control your Mac with your voice, but now you can do it with little more than Apple's latest free upgrade to Mac OS X. Over 50 editing and formatting commands were added to the voice dictation feature in Yosemite, and in addition to real-time dictation, dictated text…

For further reading: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-mac-voice-commands-better-dictation-os-x-yosemite/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - OS X Mavericks: How to control your Mac with your voice

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Natu 00e 1lia de Souza | permalink

For further reading: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476162/mac-os-x/os-x-mavericks--how-to-control-your-mac-with-your-voice.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to turn on and use Mac speech commands - CNET

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Craig Cartwright | permalink

Built into Mac OS X is speech recognition software that lets you converse with your Mac.

For further reading: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-turn-on-and-use-mac-speech-commands/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Use Voice Dictation To Speak To Your Mac

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jim O Connell | permalink

Macs have voice dictation built-in, allowing you to talk instead of type. This feature functions more like voice dictation on a mobile operating system, and less like the more complicated Speech Recognition feature found in Windows.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/178636/use-voice-dictation-to-speak-to-your-mac/ ^[4]