lifehacker.com — Mac OS X comes with a pretty great Speech Recognition tool built-in, and, although it doesn't do all that much out-of-the-box, it's really easy to create your own speakable actions for virtually any application. Here is how (video included)
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fleischnerNov 22, 2006
I built speech recognition (albeit the OS 9 version) into this:<a class="user" href="http://home.comcast.net/~mdf-1/">http://home.comcast.net/~mdf-1/</a>Not *really* necessary, but was hoping for some "cool" factor.
Closed AccountNov 22, 2006
cool
lordevinNov 22, 2006
I have a similar speaker system set up and use it to control iTunes in the living room while the computer's in the bedroom. "Computer, Next song"
jedeye459Nov 22, 2006
Computer, finish my work! That will be the day.
reidtheweed01Nov 22, 2006
Yeah, ive only been doing this since Windows ME
macparrotNov 22, 2006
Computer! Set "Reidtheweed" as TROLL!Damn it. Didn't set all the parameters...I'll get back to this later.
Closed AccountNov 22, 2006
I have an iSight camera along with a SightFlex stand.<a class="user" href="http://www.geekculture.com/blurbs/reviews/sightFlex.html">http://www.geekculture.com/blurbs/reviews/sightFlex.html</a>I have the SightFlex sitting on top of my Dual G5 desktop Mac with the camera turned sideways and positioned about 6 inches above my head like a boom microphone. I am almost always listening to podcasts or audio books while I am working at my computer and this setup works well for me.
macnessJan 13, 2007
Speech Toggle at <a class="user" href="http://www.chimoosoft.com/speechtoggle.html">http://www.chimoosoft.com/speechtoggle.html</a> is handy for toggling speech recognition on and off... Useful add on if you're going to play around with this.