Mac OS X to the Max: Other Input Devices
Although keyboards and mice (along with their variants) are the primary input devices you are likely to use, they are by no means the only types available. Following are some other types of more specialized control devices:
Speech recognition This category of device is more software than hardware (the only hardware required is a microphone of one type or another), but its purpose is the same as the other devices in this chapter. You can use speech recognition to both input information to and provide control over your Mac. Although the idea of being able to speak to your Mac is quite appealing, most implementations of this concept fall far short of the ideal. In fact, they tend to fall so far short of the ...
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