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Speak the current URL ... with a twist System
Get your Mac to say where you are ... select the entire URL in the Safari address bar by clicking on the favicon to the left. Right-click (control-click) it and choose Speech -> Start speaking. This feature works in any text field, as you already know, but what's cool here is that when you do it on the Mac OS X Hints address, it actually says "Mac OS Ten Hints." Sweet. Trust Apple.

[Editor's note: Honest, they never called me to ask how I pronounce it, which is actually the wrong way ("mac-os-ex-hints"), given that I want people to spell it correctly! Since this is done using the speech system, this same pronunciation trick works in any app that supports speech.]
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works on chimera too
Authored by: da5idonimac on Jan 17, '03 10:44:46AM

just to let you know (only safari was mentioned)



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works on anything
Authored by: DougAdams on Jan 17, '03 11:28:44AM

...with Speech Services.



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I pointed this out ;-)
Authored by: robg on Jan 17, '03 11:36:13AM

In my comment...

-rob.



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Big X, Little x
Authored by: poetguru on Jan 17, '03 04:32:37PM

I love speak text, use it all the time as a poet.

Anyway, if you make the url, macosXhints, you hear "Mac OS X h-i-n-t-s"
if you make it small, macosxhints, you hear "Mac OS ten hints"

Peace and Love
thom



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Try other acronyms
Authored by: hindsight on Jan 19, '03 10:38:27PM

Speach services knows about other acronyms as well. Try SCSI, GUI & IMAP.



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The TEN is important
Authored by: el bid on Jan 20, '03 02:29:56AM

Steve did something really clever renaming NeXTStep "Mac OS X" (pronounced "ten"). Clever, but not smart.

With the new OS, Apple joined the UNIX community -- where "X" (pronounced "ex") already had a well-established and very important significance with which Steve's "X" was set on a collision course. If you thought calling an operating system "Mac OS Ten ten-point-one" was veering towards dumb, what happens when Apple's own (very good, incidentally) version of X (the real UNIX X) arrives. Now we have "X11 for Mac OS X 10.2". And then when Steve's next major version of the current OS arrives, presumably with Apple's X (the real UNIX X) bundled in? "Mac OS XI featuring X11".

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el bid



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