Goggle Docs is a free service from Goggle. I find if I slow down a little bit then it usually works better. So you can see there it worked pretty well but it didn't get everything right. Plus with enhanced dictation comma you can type at the same time to combine the best of both worlds period. Gary speaking, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog period. I'll use the fn key twice to start dictation and we'll give it a go. So let's give it a test by going into Pages here. So you can look through all the different commands that you can speak while in dictation and it will use it to alter the text. You need to be able to do things like select words and change styles and things like that. Here is where you can access dictation commands because it's not all just about saying words. But you also can go into Accessibility and from there look for Dictation on the left. Then you can check your keyboard shortcut to see which one you're using. Make sure that Dictation is turned on and you have Enhanced Dictation checked. So to use MacOS's built in functionality you want to go to System Preferences and then you want to go to Keyboard, Dictation. Using the free service from Goggle you can dictate into a word processing document.

But some people look for another solution. So using the built-in Mac OS functionality is great and that's the way I do it. Now there used be some software that was really popular that did it but that's kind of been discontinued. There is a way built into MacOS to allow you to dictate and some people are looking for something better. So a lot of people ask me how they can dictate to their Mac.

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