| Tip 402 | Tell Your Mac to Do Things |
We can file this tip under “innovative features introduced some time ago.”
Your Mac has powerful speech recognition software, which you might already know about. What you might not know about is a different kind of speech recognition on offer that lets you issue commands to your Mac to do things like start apps or select options within dialog boxes. For this to work, you’ll need a Mac with a built-in microphone, although all modern portable Macs and iMacs have this.
Activating Spoken Commands
To activate spoken commands, open System Preferences (Apple menu→System Preferences), and click the Accessibility icon. Then click the Speakable Items icon in the list on the left, ensure the Settings tab is selected, and ...
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