![]() O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers. Get OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual now with O’Reilly online learning. You can keep on blabbing away until you’ve dictated your entire dissertation or letter to Congress. On OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), offline dictation and longer dictation are allowed and you can enable it by answering yes when asked if you want enhanced dictation. ![]() ![]() As a bonus, Enhanced Dictation means that you’re no longer limited to 30 seconds of dictation per burst. Mac Basics: Dictation - HT5449 Hopefully this helps others that are looking for an official answer or explanation. On the other hand, how’s this for some good news? You no longer need an Internet connection to use voice typing a new option, Enhanced Dictation, downloads the conversion software right to your Mac. (Your accuracy is much, much better when you wear a headset.) Very often, you’ll have to correct an error or two. ![]() Voice typing isn’t always practical, since everybody around you can hear what you’re doing. It works even better on Macs that have dual microphones, like MacBooks with Retina Displays those two mikes create a “beam array”-a directional alignment that helps them differentiate your voice from the background noise. Dictation Believe it or not, dictation is built into the Mac, just as it is on the latest iPhones and iPads. Voice typing works best if there’s not a lot of background noise.
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