Background noise can easily mess up the conversions too, so it’s best to use in an otherwise quiet environment. Wait a second or two and your speech should be written out exactly in textĭictation works very well, though some unusual words and phrases it seems to have a hard time with but annunciation can help in much the same way that typing things how they sound rather than are spelled can help with text-to-speech.As soon as the little microphone popup appears, start talking and when finished either hit the “fn” key again or click the “Done” button.Open any writing app or go to a text input field and double-tap the “fn” key to bring up Dictation.The default Dictation button is the “fn” (function) key, that can be changed within the Dictation options but it’s a good default choice so there isn’t much reason to switch it. Personally I think unless you’re in the NSA or some other highly secretive organization, there’s nothing to worry about with Dictation, because Apple is interested in selling you software and hardware not listening in on your conversations. If you’re at all worried about security you can avoid the Dictation feature, or click on the little privacy button in the pref panel and read about Apple’s policies. In order to be accurate with peoples names and addresses, the Contacts list is also transferred to Apple. The confirmation dialog tells you that anything you say is sent to Apple in order to be converted to text, that’s because the speech-to-text conversion is done remotely through Apple’s cloud servers and then transmitted back to your Mac. At the confirmation dialog, choose “Enable Dictation”.
It’s easy to enable Dictation on a Mac though and it’s even easier to use, let’s get started to learn how to enable this handy voice-to-text feature and then how to use it in Mac OS.ĭictation is available on any modern Mac OS release, including MacOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
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