Re: Emacs MAC & Siri ?

[David Masterson <dsmasterson@icloud.com>]

Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 6:45 PM David Masterson <dsmasterson@icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 3:02 PM David Masterson <dsmasterson@icloud.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know if Emacs on a Macbook can work with Siri?  That is, can
>> >> I dictate text to Siri and have it show up in a file that Emacs is
>> >> editing?
>> >
>> > I don't know about Siri, but I know you can use macOS "Voice Control"
>> > to dictate text to anything that will accept typed text.  I just tried
>> > it on Emacs running in text-mode under Terminal and it worked.  Siri
>> > was not activated.  I just activated Voice Control in the System
>> > Settings under Accessibility.
>>
>> Hmm.  Was more wondering about how well Emacs integrates with the MAC
>> GUI and whether I can dictate text to Emacs running in the MAC GUI.
>
> It works the same on any application that accepts text.  So it works
> on GUI Emacs the same as in text-based Emacs.  To hit a button shown
> in GUI, Voice Control identifies each button with a number that you
> can identify in your dictation.  It's best to train the dictation
> first, but again, it's the same for all apps.

Thanks
-- 
David Masterson