Can i dictate to my macbook pro

For more help with Keyboard options, click the Help button in Keyboard preferences. The pop-up menu below the microphone icon in the Dictation pane of Keyboard preferences shows which device your Mac is currently using to listen. Click the pop-up menu below the microphone icon, then choose the microphone you want to use for keyboard dictation. Open the Dictation pane for me Click On. If a prompt appears, click Enable Dictation. Dictate text In an app on your Mac, place the insertion point where you want the dictated text to appear.

Set the dictation keyboard shortcut You can choose a specific dictation keyboard shortcut or create one of your own. Change the microphone used for keyboard dictation The pop-up menu below the microphone icon in the Dictation pane of Keyboard preferences shows which device your Mac is currently using to listen. Open the Dictation pane for me Click the pop-up menu below the microphone icon, then choose the microphone you want to use for keyboard dictation.

Click the microphone icon and select which microphone you want to use. If you only have one microphone connected to your Mac, the internal microphone is selected automatically. Click the "Shortcut" pull-down menu and select which key or series of keys on your keyboard you want to press to notify your Mac that you want it start converting voice to text. Launch the application where you want to convert voice to text. Dictation converts your spoken words into text.

Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. Click Send. For example, if you speak this command while a menu item is selected, Voice Control helps you make a command for choosing that menu item. Voice Control uses the Siri speech-recognition engine for U. English only. Other languages and dialects use the speech-recognition engine previously available with Enhanced Dictation. If you're on a business or school network that uses a proxy server, Voice Control might not be able to download.

Have your network administrator refer to the network ports used by Apple software products. Use Voice Control on your Mac With Voice Control, you can navigate and interact with your Mac using only your voice instead of a traditional input device.

Click Voice Control in the sidebar. Select Enable Voice Control. But before you can start using dictation, you'll have to enable it via your Mac's System Preferences, and decide the shortcut you'll use to turn it on, as well as the language it will dictate in. Here's how to set up and use the dictation feature on a Mac computer.

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