That's too bad - one of the things I'm most excited about when Microsoft launches Windows 10 next month is that the obedient voice assistant Cortana is coming to PCs. Regrettably, Apple has no plans to bring Siri to the Mac, at least none that they've uttered publicly. And the company is letting you use natural language searches via Spotlight or in the Mail app, along the lines of, "show me the unread email from Brian in February."īut you have to type in such queries. In my tests, the expanded Spotlight capabilities that are supposed to let you search beyond the contents of your Mac for things like weather and sport scores worked intermittently for those items and didn't work at all for stock prices, apparently one of those beta snags.Īpple also promises to let you search for Web video in Spotlight from YouTube, Vimeo and Vevo. Metal will let developers produce more realistic graphics-rich games on the Mac. I'm speaking of the under-the-hood graphics technology Apple is pitching to developers called Metal, which arrives on the Mac after debuting last year on iOS. If you can't locate a wayward cursor, you can now shake your finger across the trackpad (or shake your mouse) to have the cursor momentarily grow in size so you can spot it.Īrguably the most significant additions to El Capitan are things you won't see. You'll also find it useful to "pin" the sites you frequent to the left of the tab bar in Safari. More than 300 Chinese cities are included.Īmong the small but potentially handy niceties comes the ability to silence audio playing in the background in Safari without you having to embark on an expedition trying to figure out where the darn sound is coming from. Public transit directions have been added to the Maps app, for London, San Francisco, Toronto and the New York City metropolitan areas, with more cities coming in the fall when El Capitan launches.
Unlike the new Notes app for iOS, however, you can't draw notes with your finger, though via iCloud you can display any jottings from the iOS version of the app inside the El Capitan version. You can directly share content from other OS X apps into Notes.
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to turn on Enhanced Dictation in OS X and take advantage of speech-to-text, even when you're off the grid.The far more complete Notes app lets you drag and drop photos, add audio and video files, maps locations and more. That is: continuos, streaming dictation with live feedback is made possible. Because voice recognition processing runs locally on your Mac, text appears instantly as you speak. In other words, server-based Dictation lets you dictate without an active Internet connection.
On the Mac, computing resources like CPU power, battery life and RAM are not of paramount importance as on mobile, Therefore, OS X Mavericks provides a new Enhanced Dictation feature which converts your words to text without utilizing Apple’s servers. iOS devices have limited computing power so the Dictation feature on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad requires network connectivity in iOS 7 (iOS 8 supports streaming voice recognition and 22 new languages). This is much like iOS’s Dictation feature as both iOS and OS X use the same Nuance-powered technology that turns speech to text. You can use “speakable items”, basically a set of spoken commands, to open apps, choose menu items, email contacts and convert whole spoken sentences to text, wherever you can type text. OS X includes a nifty Dictation feature which allows you to control your Mac and apps with your voice.
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