Yesterday the final version of the new software for Macs was released. MacOS Catalina is now available for download and we can tell you that it is a very complete update. One of the characteristics is to be able to control our Mac with the voice, although it is not the only important one. Voice Control refines the current Enhanced Dictation feature
We are not talking about the possibility of dictating a text to the Mac, this already existed for a long time. We are talking about the option of to be able to open almost any application that we have installed on our Apple computers.
How has voice control improved?
With MacOS Catalina, voice control has improved exponentially. For this, a new system of numbered labels has been created and that We can see next to the elements with which we can interact.
We can click (to open or select), select several elements as if we were using the secondary mouse button and with the new tools for users with reduced vision, You can zoom in on a paragraph or on the entire screen. If you have two screens, you can have one enlarged and the other in normal resolution. A marvel!
We can correct a specific word in a text, or even change it to an emoji. We can also select text, saying for example «Upload two lines. Select the previous word. Capitalize it.
Enhanced dictation has been replaced in MacOS Catalina by Voice Control.
Open the photos application (or whatever you want) and see the images we have, scrolling up or down, just by telling the computer. We can do the same with Safari to be able to read, for example, an article on the Web.
We have to say that this voice control option It is a preference that the user must activate manually. By default, the Mac does not have it active. But getting it is quite easy.
Follow these steps if you want to control your Mac with your voice:
- System preferences
- Accessibility
- Voice control (we mark the option that by default is unchecked).
PIn order to see the complete list of all the actions that are available, It would only be enough to click on "commands" and if we don't find the one we want, it's as easy as adding it.