Re: Emacs MAC & Siri ?

[Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>]

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.



-- 
/Pierre