My reply, don’t bother, by the time he/she would need to do some serious text input we will be much more used to using voice to text than we are now.I recently asked them via their Support page about possibly choosing alternate hotkeys for invoking the Command mode and Dictation mode, and received a response within a day from also see that they are on Twitter: Somebody asked me recently what “learn to type” software would I recommend for a five year old.

With so much processing power at our fingertips and to be honest old fashioned typing the future really is voice. We are being guided, maybe subconsciously, to use voice to text more and more and rightly so.

User education started gently with Siri, firmed up with voice-to-text in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) and now that extra push in Mavericks. Enhanced Dictation requires a one off download of your chosen languageĪpple continue to tease and push, albeit gently, for users to embrace voice recognition.

If you need to dump out reams of text perhaps to write blogs, essays or stories then Dragon is still the way to go. But having said that, if you want to write quick tweets, short emails, IM chat then Enhanced Dictation is the way to go. 381 Mb)Īll of this adds more pressure on Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac from Nuance although at this stage Dragon is still leaps and bounds ahead in terms of features and also accuracy. English (Australian) which forces a download of a dictionary of relevant words for that language (approx.

Choice of mic inputs, if you are serious about using this invest in a noise cancelling USB mic for much more accurate voice-to-text rather than using the internal mic which is prone to background noise interference.

The voice to text is processed much faster as it is done locally.

The benefits of this make quite a profound difference, why? The key difference between Enhanced Dictation in 10.9 and what was available in 10.8 is that the audio you speak can now be processed on your Mac rather than sending your soundbite off to the Apple cloud for generic speech-to-text processing, known as server based dictation. This weeks release of Apple’s shiny new operating system OS X Mavericks 10.9 builds on the voice-to-text features that appeared in Mountain Lion (10.8) by adding what is called “ Enhanced Dictation“.

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