macosvoice-dictation
I know that the dotted blue underlined words during dictation in OS X are supposed to provide alternative suggestions of the voice transcription.
However, when I control-click or right-click the blue underlined words, I do not see any suggestions or alternatives. Please help!
I am running the GM of OS X Mavericks…been running Mavericks since beta seed 4.
Also, I use a magic trackpad, not a mouse (just in case this matters).
Is this just a Mavericks bug or am I doing something wrong?
You could either edit property lists that store the setting and reopen the DictationIM process:
#!/bin/bash
k="com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMLocaleIdentifier"
if [[ "$(defaults read $k)" == en-US ]]; then
defaults write $k fr-FR
defaults write com.apple.assistant "Session Language" fr-FR
else
defaults write $k en-US
defaults write com.apple.assistant "Session Language" en-US
fi
killall -HUP DictationIM
Or use UI scripting:
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
tell pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
click
if value is "English (United States)" then
click menu item "French" of menu 1
else
click menu item "English (United States)" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"
Both scripts are copied from my answer to How to use applescript to toggle the language setting of new dictation tool (10.8) - Stack Overflow.
Changing the actions of double-presses of modifier keys is probably impossible. There isn't even a code point for the fn key in CORPCHAR.TXT.
But if you're looking to add a different shortcut for toggling speech, you should be looking for method names instead of shortcut strings.
I tried using strings to find method names for starting dictation. startDictation: and startSpeechCaptureForDictation: seemed promising, but neither worked in DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
Even if you were able to change the shortcut in DefaultKeyBinding.dict, it wouldn't work in applications that don't support the customizable keybindings.
What's wrong with just changing it in System Preferences?
If you want to use a shortcut that isn't allowed, you might be able to change CustomizedDictationHotKey in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs.plist.
Best Answer
aThe blue underlined words (if it works in the same way as it does on iOS (I don't use dictation on OS X)) then they are not there to provide alternate suggestions, but they are there to tell you that OS X is not entirely confident in its transcription. If a word is underlined in blue, it's saying that that was it's best guess, and if you select it you can edit the word if it is wrong in order to correct it.
If you do, Siri / OS X Dictation learns to connect that word to what you just said, and thus becomes more accurate after this is done tens of thousands of times.