macOS Catalina introduces Voice Control, a new way to fully control your Mac entirely with your voice. Voice Control uses the Siri speech-recognition engine to improve on the Enhanced Dictation feature available in earlier versions of macOS.1
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How to turn on Voice Control
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After upgrading to macOS Catalina, follow these steps to turn on Voice Control:
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility.
- Click Voice Control in the sidebar.
- Select Enable Voice Control. When you turn on Voice Control for the first time, your Mac completes a one-time download from Apple.2
Voice Control preferences
When Voice Control is enabled, you see an onscreen microphone representing the mic selected in Voice Control preferences.
To pause Voice Control and stop it from from listening, say 'Go to sleep' or click Sleep. To resume Voice Control, say or click 'Wake up.'
How to use Voice Control
Get to know Voice Control by reviewing the list of voice commands available to you: Say 'Show commands' or 'Show me what I can say.' The list varies based on context, and you may discover variations not listed. To make it easier to know whether Voice Control heard your phrase as a command, you can select 'Play sound when command is recognized' in Voice Control preferences.
Basic navigation
Voice Control recognizes the names of many apps, labels, controls, and other onscreen items, so you can navigate by combining those names with certain commands. Here are some examples:
- Open Pages: 'Open Pages.' Then create a new document: 'Click New Document.' Then choose one of the letter templates: 'Click Letter. Click Classic Letter.' Then save your document: 'Save document.'
- Start a new message in Mail: 'Click New Message.' Then address it: 'John Appleseed.'
- Turn on Dark Mode: 'Open System Preferences. Click General. Click Dark.' Then quit System Preferences: 'Quit System Preferences' or 'Close window.'
- Restart your Mac: 'Click Apple menu. Click Restart' (or use the number overlay and say 'Click 8').
You can also create your own voice commands.
Number overlays
Use number overlays to quickly interact with parts of the screen that Voice Control recognizes as clickable, such as menus, checkboxes, and buttons. To turn on number overlays, say 'Show numbers.' Then just say a number to click it.
Number overlays make it easy to interact with complex interfaces, such as web pages. For example, in your web browser you could say 'Search for Apple stores near me.' Then use the number overlay to choose one of the results: 'Show numbers. Click 64.' (If the name of the link is unique, you might also be able to click it without overlays by saying 'Click' and the name of the link.)
Voice Control automatically shows numbers in menus and wherever you need to distinguish between items that have the same name.
Grid overlays
Use grid overlays to interact with parts of the screen that don't have a control, or that Voice Control doesn't recognize as clickable.
Say 'Show grid' to show a numbered grid on your screen, or 'Show window grid' to limit the grid to the active window. Algol (c64) mac os. Say a grid number to subdivide that area of the grid, and repeat as needed to continue refining your selection.
To click the item behind a grid number, say 'Click' and the number. Or say 'Zoom' and the number to zoom in on that area of the grid, then automatically hide the grid. You can also use grid numbers to drag a selected item from one area of the grid to another: 'Drag 3 to 14.'
To hide grid numbers, say 'Hide numbers.' To hide both numbers and grid, say 'Hide grid.'
Dictation
When the cursor is in a document, email message, text message, or other text field, you can dictate continuously. Dictation converts your spoken words into text.
- To enter a punctuation mark, symbol, or emoji, just speak its name, such as 'question mark' or 'percent sign' or 'happy emoji.' These may vary by language or dialect.
- To move around and select text, you can use commands like 'Move up two sentences' or 'Move forward one paragraph' or 'Select previous word' or 'Select next paragraph.'
- To format text, try 'Bold that' or 'Capitalize that,' for example. Say 'numeral' to format your next phrase as a number.
- To delete text, you can choose from many delete commands. For example, say 'delete that' and Voice Control knows to delete what you just typed. Or say 'Delete all' to delete everything and start over.
Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. For example, to dictate and then send a birthday greeting in Messages, you could say 'Happy Birthday. Click Send.' Or to replace a phrase, say 'Replace I'm almost there with I just arrived.'
You can also create your own vocabulary for use with dictation.
Create your own voice commands and vocabulary
Create your own voice commands
- Open Voice Control preferences, such as by saying 'Open Voice Control preferences.'
- Click Commands or say 'Click Commands.' The complete list of all commands opens.
- To add a new command, click the add button (+) or say 'Click add.' Then configure these options to define the command:
- When I say: Enter the word or phrase that you want to be able to speak to perform the action.
- While using: Choose whether your Mac performs the action only when you're using a particular app.
- Perform: Choose the action to perform. You can open a Finder item, open a URL, paste text, paste data from the clipboard, press a keyboard shortcut, select a menu item, or run an Automator workflow.
- Use the checkboxes to turn commands on or off. You can also select a command to find out whether other phrases work with that command. For example, 'Undo that' works with several phrases, including 'Undo this' and 'Scratch that.'
To quickly add a new command, you can say 'Make this speakable.' Voice Control will help you configure the new command based on the context. 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.
Create your own dictation vocabulary
- Open Voice Control preferences, such as by saying 'Open Voice Control preferences.'
- Click Vocabulary, or say 'Click Vocabulary.'
- Click the add button (+) or say 'Click add.'
- Type a new word or phrase as you want it to be entered when spoken.
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- For the best performance when using Voice Control with a Mac notebook computer and an external display, keep your notebook lid open or use an external microphone.
- All audio processing for Voice Control happens on your device, so your personal data is always kept private.
- Use Voice Control on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Learn more about accessibility features in Apple products.
1. Voice Control uses the Siri speech-recognition engine for U.S. English only. Other languages and dialects use the speech-recognition engine previously available with Enhanced Dictation.
2. 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.
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What would be really funny, SSH to your Mac, use osascript to turn the volume all the way up on your Mac (set volume 6) and then 'say' something to someone at home, like your wife or kids!!! Like I might say: 'Hello? This is the crazy and possesed Mac speaking to you. Do what I say or I will start saying knock knock jokes.'
I'm not sure if this would work through SSH, but I guess it would. BTW, whats the highest interger for setting the volume all the way up?
as long as you have an account with shell acess (remote login turned on too) then you can do this. It worked with the osascript tip and now with say. Very useful. Remind those students they should not be eating in the lab, or something.
LOL
I've been trying to build a little app based on say, but I'm just a web guy:
http://www.robotradio.net/
Yeah, I've done this to people. Yes, it's hilarious.
Kinda reminds me of a Classic extension called Radiation. Allowed you to create standard dialog boxes on any computer on the network. The default was great: 'The radiation shield on your Macintosh has failed. Please step back 5 feet.'
Very cool! I also like the fact that they put in a man page for it so we didn't have to fumble around for usage hints.
On a side note, I really appreciate all of the Panther 'hidden gems' that I find here.
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This sounds like an exceptionally bad idea to me. A malicious user could just type in a quote, followed by &&, followed by any malicious command, and then another quote to match the one at the end. You REALLY don't want to give arbitrary users permission to execute shell commands on your system.
Since what ever the user types is in quotes, what could the user type that would do anything other than speak the text.
Example: I tried to enter: hello ' && open /Applications/Calculator.app
and nothing happened. Please, if I'm wrong and someone CAN do something malicious, please correct me.
A bit funnier.
$selected=';
switch($_POST['QUI']){
case 'Agnes' : $selected[1] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Albert' : $selected[2] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bad News' : $selected[3] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bahh' : $selected[4] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bells' : $selected[5] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Boing' : $selected[6] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bruce' : $selected[7] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bubbles' : $selected[8] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Cellos' : $selected[9] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Deranged' : $selected[10] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Fred' : $selected[11] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Hysterical' : $selected[12] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Junior' : $selected[13] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Kathy' : $selected[14] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Pipe Organ' : $selected[15] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Princess' : $selected[16] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Ralph' : $selected[17] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Trinoids' : $selected[18] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Vicky' : $selected[19] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Victoria' : $selected[20] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Whisper' : $selected[21] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Zarvox' : $selected[22] ='SELECTED';break;
}
?>
>Agnes >Albert >Bad News >Bahh >Bells >Boing >Bruce >Bubbles >Cellos >Deranged >Fred >Hysterical >Junior >Kathy >Pipe Organ >Princess >Ralph >Trinoids >Vicki >Victoria >Whisper >Zarvox
Say: <? echo $_POST['text']?>
if (isset($_POST['text'])) {
exec('say -v '.$_POST['QUI'].' '.$_POST['text'].'');
}
?>
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Can you think of why I am only able to hear speech through my cmd line and Salling Clicker but not when I use your script via php?
I am positive my php5 setup is running and working as I utilize if wit my server mail script on my site.
Thanks,
~thecolor
it seems to be working now. Unsure why as I've not changed any of my settings. :)
Thanks
say 94870342956230954792347592037452345
Gives you new insights what to do once you've made your first million dollars. :-)
Bye,
christian
say 94,870,342,956,230,954,792,347,592,037,452,345
This command lives in Jaguar also. I've been using this command to freak out people on the Macs I can ssh into for over a year now.
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Where is it in Jaguar? I've searched my whole system and can't find it anywhere. Yes I do have the BSD subsystem installed and I'm running 10.2.6.
I only know of it existing in Jaguar with the 'osascript' command -- which executes AppleScript's 'say,' not the shell's say (try saying that five times quickly!)
-rob.
Nevermind, I forgot I had made my own 'say' command using osascript.
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anyone notice that if you do the command: say 'x', or say 'mac x' or say 'this is an example of saying x' that the voice will pronounce x as ecks, but if you type: say 'mac os x' or 'os x' then it will pronounce x as 'ten'? I know, this is how its supposed to be said, I was just tickled by this detail.
If you look at 'man say', you'll see the -o option to send spoken data to an aiff file and a -f option to read the contents of a text file.
In the directory /Users/myusername/Documents, I created a plan-text file called myfile.txt. Here's what happened:
say 'Hello' SUCCESS
say -v Vicki 'Hello' SUCCESS
but ALL of these failed with a return code of -1:
say -v Vicki -o mysound.aiff -f myfile.txt
say -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -o 'mysound.aiff' -f 'myfile.txt'
Does anyone see what I've done wrong or has anyone succeeded with the -o or -f options and what did it take to get there?
Any help will be appreciated.
Sounds play but I also get this error:
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
Any clue of what it is?
Any clue of what it is?
Yes, it's Toast. Just do a search on this site for : regR/carP
I'm curious if anyone is familure with a way to pipe this command through to the visiting clients speakers or preferably the beep speaker. Obviously the voice does not need a serious subwoofer. and the beep speaker is always active.
It works great on my end. but I'd like to pass 'say' sounds to users visiting as well. I've not located any such question on the forum yet (and a difficult one to tailor in Google. ;)
Thanks
Here's a fun one. :)
say Super cala fraj ee listick ex pee al a doashus