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How to Use the Apple Watch Keyboard: Typing on Apple Watch Directly, & with Dictation, or iPhone

Mar 25, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Use the Apple Watch keyboard

The Apple Watch may be small and on your wrist, but believe it or not the Apple Watch also has a keyboard. Yes, even with the small screen, you can use a full size QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch to type things out, whether it’s a quick response to a message, or an email. In … Read More

How to Automatically Send Messages with Siri from iPhone Without Confirmation

Sep 29, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Siri icon

If you’re confident in Siri’s abilities to dictate text and accurately relay what you are saying into a message, you can enable a feature that allows you to automatically send messages from Siri on iPhone without asking for a confirmation first. When the confirmation is enabled, you’ll see the text typed out that Siri has … Read More

Remove Dictation Button from Safari Address Bar on iPhone & iPad

Aug 24, 2022 - 2 Comments
Remove the microphone dictation button from Safari search bar on iPhone or iPad

You may have noticed a microphone button in the address bar of Safari on iPhone or iPad, and when the microphone icon is tapped it will activate dictation, turning your voice into text. Many users may accidentally tap on the microphone dictation button in Safari on iPhone or iPad, and thus may want to disable … Read More

How to Remove Microphone Button from Keyboard on iPhone or iPad

Mar 12, 2019 - 16 Comments
How to remove the microphone button from keyboard on iPhone or iPad

As you may have noticed, a prominent microphone button is visible on the iOS keyboard for iPhone and iPad, which when tapped will use voice-to-text to dictate spoken text to the iOS device in lieu of typing. Some users may never use the microphone button, while others may accidentally tap on the mic button, in … Read More

How to Remove the Enhanced Dictation 1.2GB Pack from Mac

Nov 23, 2016 - 6 Comments
Disabling Enhanced Dictation on Mac

Dictation on the Mac is fantastic, and if you have chosen to use Enhanced Dictation then you’ve downloaded a 1.2GB voice recognition pack to your Mac locally so that it can improve the overall functionality of the feature. That’s fine and dandy, but at some point if you decide you no longer need the Enhanced … Read More

How to Start Dictation by Voice Command in Mac OS X

Oct 28, 2015 - 38 Comments
Enable Dictation by voice command in Mac OS X

The Dictation feature of OS X has let Mac users speak to their computers and have the speech converted accurately into text for quite some time, and now with the newest versions of OS X you can improve Dictation even further by starting the speech to text conversion with a voice command. You can think … Read More

Improve Dictation with Live Speech-To-Text & Offline Mode in Mac OS X

Nov 2, 2013 - 15 Comments
Turn on Enhanced Dictation for Offline Support

Dictation is the new speech-to-text engine that lets your Mac type out what you are saying as you talk, and it’s one of the many excellent features included with modern versions of Mac OS X. Now from Mavericks onward, you can improve Dictation considerably by enabling an option called “Enhanced Dictation”, this will provide two … Read More

Dictation Commands for Mac OS X & iOS

Jan 24, 2013 - 57 Comments
Dictation

Dictation is a feature of iOS and Mac OS X that lets you speak as you normally would, transforming your speech magically into text. It’s impressively accurate, letting you easily crank out notes, emails, diary entries, or just about anything else with it just by talking. To really get the most out of Dictation though … Read More

How to Have iPhone or iPad Read Emails To You & Speak to Write Back

Aug 31, 2012 - 6 Comments
Speak emails to you in iOS

Want to have your emails read to you? How about talking to write out a reply rather than poking around on the touch screen? You can easily do both in iOS, so the next time you need to read and write emails while you’re on the go or driving, consider using the awesome text-to-speech and … Read More

How to Enable & Use Dictation on Mac OS

Jul 27, 2012 - 16 Comments
Turn on Dictation in OS X Mountain Lion

Dictation is available to the Mac with newer versions of system software, but despite being one of the major features of Mac OS you may find that it’s not enabled by default on some Macs. It’s easy to enable Dictation on a Mac though and it’s even easier to use, let’s get started to learn … Read More

Turn Dictation OFF or ON for iPad or iPhone

May 4, 2012 - 35 Comments
iPad Dictation

Dictation on the iPad and iPhone converts your words into text, it can make typing in iOS easier but it’s also easy to accidentally activate with an inadvertent touch. It works quite well, you just press the microphone button on the iOS keyboard and it listens to what you say, and then converts your speech … Read More

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