WSR is definitely quirky. I learned it must be activated before launching Word. Next, I found it unresponsive when I tried to get it started ('start listening'). What I discovered is that at startup, it seems to do a lot of preliminary work (what I don't know), but it often takes a minute or two to actually toggle to 'Listening'. After the initial 'start listening' command (make sure you see the volume indicator move), go get a drink (of water) and give it some time to rev up. Once the 'Listening' text appears, it is operational.
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Your words will appear in the text field. Select Done or the fn key; Your Mac computer will listen up to 30 second at a time. For more details, see Apple's article. To turn speech recognition on or off: Click the Windows Start button. Select All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > Windows Speech Recognition. Speech option for PDF in Preview App, Mac OS X Note: If you want to change the Voice option (male/female/accent): Click on Apple Logo -> System Preference -> Dictation & Speech -> Text to Speech tab -> Select preferred System Voice from the dropdown menu. How to use the 'Text to Speech' option on your MacBook. OSX Mavericks. This option provides you with spoken text from documents or Internet pages. Wrapping up: Best Text to Speech for Mac So these were some of the TTS software available on the Mac and we hope we made your decision a little bit easier. If you are someone who reads mainly on the internet, Read Aloud is by far the best free option. Speech-to-text software, or dictation software, lets you control your computer, dictate text, or both. These are the options for Mac OS X users. Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, is something that lets you talk to the computer in some form and have the computer react appropriately to what you are saying.
WSR is not a human brain. It tries to build context from documents you have written, but often, it just seems to use a best guess. If you speak in well enunciated phrases instead of couplets, it works much better. While it has limited learning abilities, you really need to adapt to it - not expect the converse. Some words are necessary to correct manually (synonyms: hole, whole).
I am trying to use it to write a book, and at the moment, the jury is out. I type fast, but WSR is faster and doesn't make the spelling mistakes I do, but I seldom dictate more than 2-3 sentences without an error. Maybe this will get better. What is really needed is a corrections window that makes fixing errors much faster. When I flag an error, it would also be nice to hear what I said. It is not always obvious.
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Hope this helps,
DGR
One other problem I had is clicking on the WSR icon and nothing appears to happen. I think there is a thread still running from the last time you launched it, and it won't restart. (Shades of DOS) restart your system to clear out orphaned threads. (couldn't find it in the task manager) This worked for me. This program is not actively supported, so if you can't tolerate the bugs, you need to switch to something like Dragon.
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Incidentally, I bought the WSRTookkit. It has a nice interface and some useful functionality.