I keep getting warnings and, when I exited settings, Voice Over was turned off. You can't just use it to read the text on a web page or, as here, in a book.In my case, I couldn't get the feature to work with iBooks.
#HOW TO TURN ON VOICE TO TEXT ON MAC MAC#
Turn on the features and your blasted Mac or iPad does voice-over for everything. Ordinary people are overwhelmed by all the options. It's designed in consultation with disability superusers, I told them. I've raised the problem with Apple's accessibility options with their team. VoiceOver will now read the whole book to you without further intervention.Maybe, maybe not. Just turn VoiceOver on, tap a line in a book and then swipe down with two fingers. It is an absolute boon - since I discovered this just over two years ago I have read about 70 books. The capture text should appear transcribed immediately. Step 2: Paste Now, go to the application or text editor where you want to transcribe the text and press CMD + V. What is clearly even less well known is that you can use VoiceOver to read iBooks from cover to cover, without quite such complicated gestures - and it's been available long before Siri was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Once you have installed the application, press CMD + Shift + 2 and select the screen area where the text you want to transcribe is located. If you wish to leave VoiceOver running but want to change the speech settings, click the 'Open VoiceOver Utility' button. Click on the Enable link to enable the keyboard shortcuts.
Scroll down a bit to find an Enable link besides the text The following keyboard shortcuts are currently disabled. If you wish to simply turn off VoiceOver, click the 'Off' radio button beneath the 'VoiceOver' heading. This will open a popup showing Gmail keyboard shortcut list.
#HOW TO TURN ON VOICE TO TEXT ON MAC BLUETOOTH#
You'll have to hook up Apple's Bluetooth keyboard, but it will beat a lot of scrolling.Also, there is this from the MacWorld UK comments to this article: This is actually rather a limited way to use iBooks for audiobooks. Select 'Universal Access.' A window opens that displays settings for all accessibility options available on your Mac. I just checked, and it does select all the text in a book. It's a bit of trouble, but a lot of OS X keyboard commands will work with iOS, including Command-A to select all the text.
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