Once again, I am in a place where I can’t work directly with my servers to test the steps and images, so. We’ll take a brief detour here to take a quick look at your Mac’s built-in dictation features. I can hear you now You may think you have to wait for Siri to appear in macOS Sierra before you can talk to your Mac, but your Mac already has a way to listen to everything you say and to turn what it hears into text. You can enable this feature, which supports over 30 languages and many more dialects, using the Dictation & Speech preference in System Preferences. Mac address vendor lookup. Apple’s speech to text features are turned off by default, so before you can use this feature you need to turn it on. • Open System Preferences.

*NOTE: Text to Speech functionality may not work for all VitalSource titles. Please contact support if you have any issues with your ebook How to change the Voice Type or Speed To change the voice of the reader in Mac, please go to System Preferences > Dictation & Speech > Text to Speech. You can change the system voice as well as the speaking rate.

• Click Dictation & Speech, which you’ll find in the middle of System Preferences’ fourth row. • Click the radio button that says On. You will see a message warning you that using your Mac’s dictation option the way it’s currently set up will send your spoken text to Apple to be converted.

• Click Enable Dictation. The default keyboard shortcut to begin dictating is to press your Mac’s fn key twice. If you aren’t using an Apple keyboard with an f* key, make note of or choose a different shortcut key. Let’s give this a test: • Open the TextEdit app. • Select File > New to create a new document.