Voice commands and bluetooth

[clock]

i just recently got my ibook G4 and i have a few questions.
1st of all.. it has the voice command thing function right? can anyone give me a list of commands? the only commands i can get working are "quit this application" and "hide this application" lol
2nd.. about the bluetooth.. i think i read somewhere that you can control your laptop via cellphone? ( i have a Nokia 7610 and an SE T610)
thanks in advance

[weremermaid]

Voice recognition on the Mac is still a bit iffy. Anyway, once voice command is on, click once on an app and say, "Make this speakable". It should show up in your speakable items list. Test by saying "Open Photoshop" if say, it was Photoshop you made speakable. I usually don't bother to say the computer name, but then again, voice commands work best in quieter surroundings.

I've been told you can use certain specific SE BT headset models with iChat and a PowerBook. Make sure the BT headset is added to your iSync setup. Let me ask a friend who has a Motorola BT headset, uses a SE T68i and a PB to test for us.

Nokia? Hmmm, no, the SE works better with the Mac. You can control your Mac portable via cellphone using Salling Clicker, again on specific apps like Keynote and GarageBand (surprise!!!)

[quicksilver]

Originally posted by clock
i2nd.. about the bluetooth.. i think i read somewhere that you can control your laptop via cellphone? ( i have a Nokia 7610 and an SE T610)
thanks in advance

you can use salling clicker with your Nokia 7610 to control several apps, e.g. powerpoint, itunes. unfortunately, that's about all you can do with your Nokia 7610.

[clock]

thanks for the info hahaha hmm damn last time im getting a nokia... anyway.. where do i get this "salling clicker" ? the control via cellphone..does it work with the ibook too or just the powerbook?

[super_ed]

get it here.

[Edited on 11-22-2004 by super_ed]

[mikeygar]

I can control my pbg4 using voice commands with my SE HBH-60. It works okay once you're used to talking to your laptop kinda weird in the beginning but works when i'm too tamad to type. Difficult thing to do though is to have it paired with BOTH phone and mac. When mac is on, it takes domination over the pairing and you can't use headset on the phone and vice versa. It really depends on which device you turned bluetooth on with first. BTW, you'll have to switch your audio devices in system prefs to select your BT headset as your mic and your speakers or else it won't work. It'd hang once in awhile if the headset wasn't present.

Hope this helps!

[clock]

Voice commands rock hahahahha i showed it to my evil windows friends haha they all went wide eyed..but they said that windows also has that voice command thing? even better. THey said that you could type documents just by saying the words? where do i get such a program?

[Maverick]

http://www.software.net/dr/v2/ec_MAI...ACHE_ID=161126

Via Voice for OSX
by Scansoft Inc.


As the latest in the series of award-winning speech products for Macintosh computers, ViaVoice for Mac OS X Edition has a sleek new look for Mac OS X!
# “Aqua” user interface look-and-feel throughout the application
# Optimized for G4 with Multiple Processors and Velocity Engine
# Faster enrollment and setup than in previous versions of ViaVoice for Mac*
# Dictate, edit, format and correct text in ViaVoice SpeakPad
# Use your voice to navigate the Finder™, issue commands in ViaVoice and many other Mac applications
# DSR technology provides direct dictation into many text-based Macintosh applications
# A 160,000 word vocabulary – twice the vocabulary size of previous ViaVoice for Mac products – can contribute to greater dictation accuracy
# Use your voice on the internet: create email messages, launch Internet Explorer**
# And for the first time in a ViaVoice for Mac product: support for Legal and Medical

System Requirements
# 600 MB of available hard drive space
# USB port
# Audio output jack or USB speakers
# CD-ROM or DVD drive

Macintosh Computer Requirements
# G3 and G4 Macintosh computers which support the system requirements noted above*
* ViaVoice for Mac OS X is optimized for the G4 processor. Power Mac™ G3 and PowerBook® G3 systems introduced before August 1998 are not supported. G3 systems upgraded from older machines are not supported.

[Edited on 11-23-2004 by Maverick]

[Maverick]

iListen Version 1.6.5
The Next Generation
http://www.macsense.com.au/apple_mac_pc_software.htm


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Voice Recognition Software developed for UK English accents and dialects. Multi User, Large Vocabulary Dictates straight into Macintosh applications including AppleWorks, Filemaker, Microsoft Office 2001, PageMaker, QuarkXpress, SimpleText and many others.

[Edited on 11-23-2004 by Maverick]

[clock]

are those programs worth it ?