When it comes to the Mac, there’s no Siri, but there is built-in speech capability, which is configured and activated in the Speech System Preferences pane. Primarily, speech on the Mac is designed for disabled users, but we’ve argued in the past that well-designed accessibility functions are beneficial to everyone, and we reckon that’s the case here. We explore this System Preferences pane and show how anyone can potentially improve their OS X experience by talking to their Mac and having it talk back to them--and now through a user-definable accent, no less!
But while OS X is the most accessible desktop OS around, we’re only scratching the surface of the potential of speech technology. Don’t be shocked in a few years if you’re spending as much time speaking to your Mac as entering commands using a keyboard or a pointing device.
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1. Activiate Speech
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