You have to pause enough so it just doesn't think it's part of the text. You can even use it with dictation though it can be a bit frustrating sometimes to get the command to be recognized.
So if I just say computer in this sentence it's not going to take that as an initiation of dictation commands. Now it's important that you give a pause because if you're dictating, or talking like I am here, it's not going to differentiate that command there. So now with that Done all I need to do is speak this command and say the word. Let's do Press Keyboard Shortcut here and I'll just say Command B. I could actually put that in there and then use a Dictation Command to paste that in there instead of the text replacement function that has me using the keyboard. Meaning I could say have a paragraph that maybe something I respond to people in email with a lot. Then I can choose from lots of things here including the ability to Paste Text. Any application though it's always best to restrict it to a specific app if you can. So everything you type after that is bold and you can toggle it Off with the same command.
#Time dictation on mac french and english plus#
So I'm going to hit Plus and this, instead of making the selected text bold like the default command in there, it will actually use the Command B keyboard shortcut. So as a simple example let's just make Text Bold. These are all things that you might use keyboard shortcuts for and there are already ways to do it with Dictation Commands.īut you can add any keyboard shortcut. You can even Start Dictation and Stop Dictation using commands as well. So shortcuts for things like Copy and Paste, there are already shortcuts for that like Copy That and Paste That. You can do a bunch of stuff with editing. So you can do a lot that has to do with typing text. There's more if you click Enable Advanced Commands. Now you click on Dictation Commands and you see all the commands you can use. So you could say the word here and whatever the command is.
Now it's going to use this term here to actually activate the listening for commands. Now in order to enable dictation commands, without having to actually use the keyboard to activate these commands, you can click this box here. So to enable this you want to go into System Preferences and under Accessibility look for Dictation on the left. Video Transcript: You can use the dictation commands feature of your Mac to actually speak keyboard shortcuts rather than type them. Check out Using Dictation Commands As an Alternative To Keyboard Shortcuts at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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