10.3: Use speech recognition with the Address Book

Nov 02, '03 05:45:42PM

Contributed by: QBit

Not well explained is some new speech recognition functionality in Panther. Address Book entries are part of a set of actions that can be spoken. If you use the Address Book, turn on speech recognition from the speech prefs panel in system preferences. Make sure it is working, then say something like "Mail to Jane Doe." If Jane is in your address book with an email address, a new message is created in Mail and addressed to her.

But ask for her phone number for something cool - "Phone for Jane Doe". To dismiss the window just say OK. Also, if you want to send Jane a file(s), select it in the Finder and say "Send this to Jane Doe." This command is context sensitive - try it by selecting some text or a picture in iPhoto or while in a web page.

To see all the speech commands associated with the address book just say "Open speech commands window" and look under the Address Book heading.

[robg adds: For some reason, I cannot get speech recognition working with the iSight (my only mic). It looks like it should work (input level is varying with speech), but nothing happens ... so I can't say I've tested this one.]

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