Mac voice command mac#
Reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane id ""Ĭlick checkbox "Enable Voice Control" of group 1 of wi…Ĭould you write one Applescript which turns on your Dragon dictation and turns off Mac dictation. If application "DictationIM" is not running then I had the system check to see if Dictation is running – doesn't work, though if you also want to be dictating How would you make it specifically turn off or on?ĮDIT: solved. If not, I will be happy to try to explain it again.Īpplescript or other Technique Enable/Disable Voice Control on Catalina Questions & Suggestions If KM was modified to activate macros by voice I could have KM enable macOS Voice Control. Unfortunately there's no way to do this at the moment hands-free. The problem is once Voice Control is off I need to somehow enable it again when I leave my work computer.
Mac voice command professional#
When I connect to work using XenDesktop, where I control my work computer using Dragon Professional Individual for Windows, I need to disable macOS Voice Control which I could do using macOS Voice Control. Because of this I am trying to move to macOS Voice Control.
Mac voice command for mac#
Unfortunately when macOS Big Sur release came out DPI for Mac became unstable. I used DPI for Mac through macOS Big Sur beta. I have been able to continue to use DPI for Mac up until Catalina. DPI for Mac was discontinued in October 2018. I operate my computer completely hands-free using Dragon Professional Individual (DPI) for Mac. The reason I want this is because I am a high-level quadriplegic. I would like KM to be enhanced to be able to activate macros by voice from KM. That would take someone a lot smarter than me to answer. I'm not sure if that feature can be disabled. It's probably built-in to macOS as a feature.
I think it's a legit question to ask PeterNLewis, why the Speak Text action fails to speak more than one second of text when Dictation is enabled in macOS.
But then when I disable Accessibility/Dictation then KM works fine. I think there's something deeper going on here that KM can't fix. I have a feeling that this isn't really a bug in KM, although at first glance it looks that way. When I issue the KM Action to "Speak Text" the action starts speaking (correctly through my HomePod) but then cuts out. So I thought I'd try to trick it by going to the Preferences and changing the output of my computer to be my HomePod, with my accessibility/dictation feature still enabled. That's a very good idea you had, and I wish I had thought of it myself. However you appear to be right, I can't get the Accessibility mode to recognize sound from the Mac itself. My house has HomePods and iPhones which DO respond to commands from the "Speak Text" action. This might be difficult for Peter to implement, but it seems in keeping with the philosophy of KM to make simple ways to trigger sophisticated macros, like the recently implemented trackpad gesture triggers.
Naturally I'm hoping that some future version of KM can hook into macOS so a voice command can be used to trigger a KM macro. I'd estimate it interprets me correctly about 95% of the time. The macOS voice recognition is good quality, but not as good as SIRI. I could give tips on this problem in a follow up post if anyone is interested. There are discussions about this issue online but I don't think anyone has a perfect solution for this yet. Sometimes it can be resolved by turning dictation off and on, but sometimes a reboot is required. I downloaded it years ago and haven't gone back.)Ībout once a day macOS gets quite badly stuck on voice recognition and it seems to require a reboot. I'm not sure if it's a requirement for all this to work. I turned on the Enhanced Dictation (which downloads a huge file from Apple in order to do voice recognition locally.