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Use Voice Control and other accessibility features

Use Voice Control and other accessibility features - macOS Tutorial

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Use Voice Control and other accessibility features

- [Instructor] Voice control is an accessibility feature for controlling a Mac with only voice commands or to dictate texts. It's designed to help users without the use of their hands, but it can be extremely useful for lots of other people. First, we need to go into System Preferences to turn it on. In System Preferences, we'll go to the Accessibility category. On the left, I'll scroll down to Voice Control, and we can enable it just by clicking this checkbox. And the first time you do this, it will ask for your password and it will take some time to download and install. But when it's ready, you'll see this little microphone panel on the screen. Now, I'm talking normally now, and it will ignore me until it hears a valid voice command. But what commands will it respond to? Well, you might want to start by trying show commands. And then you can scroll through this list to start to learn the options you have. This list even…

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