![]() ![]() ![]() It often happens if you pause dictating or if you correct text several times. You lose all the text you were dictating, which is very inconvenient. Is accessibility part of Apple’s now infamous App Store policies? If not, it is time it was as disabled people’s access and life chances socially, in education and work are too important to ignore.Īlso, dictating text into the WhatsApp Web text box in Apple’s web browser Safari on a Mac sometimes leads to the web page freezing and only shutting Safari down and relaunching will fix the issue. This sort of thing should be a minimum requirement for the App Store. Why does Apple allow apps in the App Store that don’t support basic accessibility requirements such as a popular messaging app used by billions every day not supporting Voice Control dictation? It may be something to do with the WhatsApp application still being a Rosette app, but nonetheless it is disappointing to see Voice Control not supporting it. Voice Control dictation doesn’t work in the WhatsApp text box in the app downloaded from the company’s App Store in macOS. Apple made a virtue of showing dictating an emoji in a film on the stage at WWDC 2019 to warm applause, but it hasn’t been implemented properly. ![]() It looks unnatural and requires going back and entering a space manually. When dictating in the macOS Mail app, a space isn’t inputted after the last word dictated (fence) and the emoji. No space is inputted after the last dictated word so dictated text appears as…”the quick brown fox jumped over the fence□“ It’s a similar situation with dictating emoji. You can say “space key” to insert a space before saying “open quotes,” but this is extra breath and energy that some physically disabled people might not have and shouldn’t be necessary. It does in other speech recognition apps. This should happen automatically when dictating. When dictating the command “open quotes,” a space isn’t automatically inputted after the last word dictated so dictated text appears like this: the quick brown fox” jumped over the fence.” It’s incorrect formatting with the quotation mark hard butted to the last word dictated and requires going back and editing and inserting a space after the last word dictated (fox) and the open quote mark immediately before jumped. It happens with other words too, which slows you down as you continuously have to clear up dictation errors Misquoting It’s intermittent but happens especially if you pause dictation. Voice Control doesn’t always take into account the grammar of many sentences, e.g., dictating the word “will” often leads, incorrectly, to capitalization of “Will” as in the man’s name. He has listed no fewer than 14 different problems. However, he says that other longstanding issues with Voice Control and dictation still need to be resolved. Hughes says that Voice Control is a great application, and it’s to the company’s immense credit that the tech is bundled in free with every Mac, iPad, or iPhone. I have called for this functionality since Voice Control was launched three years ago and most recently last August 2021. In macOS 12.3 you can now import or export Vocabulary and Custom Commands in Accessibility on Mac from a new drop-down menu visible as soon as you open Voice Control.īecause Voice Control and everything you dictate stays on device, and not in the cloud, these new features will be helpful in transferring custom vocabulary and commands built up over time to a new Mac. However, this poses an issue when you replace your Mac, as there was previously no way to transfer your custom commands and vocabulary. Both features are crucially important to those who don’t have full use of their arms.Ī huge benefit of both Voice Control and dictation on Apple devices is that it works offline. Additionally, text can be dictated rather than typed. Colin Hughes, a quadriplegic Apple user who often shares his experience of accessibility features on Apple devices, has reported that Apple has quietly added a valuable new Mac Voice Control feature.Īlthough it isn’t shown in the release notes, it appears to have been added in macOS Monterey 12.3 …Īs the name suggests, Voice Control is designed to allow people to control their Mac using voice commands, rather than a mouse or trackpad. ![]()
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