Thoughts on Voice Control from someone who will use it.

[EEzycade]

I was watching the keynote but had an appointment I needed to get to. I missed the segment about Catalina. However, I went to their website and looked at the page describing all the new features. I watched the Voice Control video and loved it. Awesome! I think Apple nailed it. The reason I will use it is I am disabled and live in a power wheelchair. I have a muscle disease so at times moving my hand from the keyboard to the mouse is extremely fatiguing. I think this feature will be great for my workflow. I have my issues with Apple but.. kudos to them for including everyone. The Apple we know and love stumbles at times, sure. But I'm sticking with them for a variety of reasons(this included) Anyways, those are my thoughts. Thanks for reading.

 

[david.ferrett]

I was watching the keynote but had an appointment I needed to get to. I missed the segment about Catalina. However, I went to their website and looked at the page describing all the new features. I watched the Voice Control video and loved it. Awesome! I think Apple nailed it. The reason I will use it is I am disabled and live in a power wheelchair. I have a muscle disease so at times moving my hand from the keyboard to the mouse is extremely fatiguing. I think this feature will be great for my workflow. I have my issues with Apple but.. kudos to them for including everyone. The Apple we know and love stumbles at times, sure. But I'm sticking with them for a variety of reasons(this included) Anyways, those are my thoughts. Thanks for reading.

Nice comments. I am also playing with it (Beta 1) but now it looks like its removed from beta 2. It worked pretty well, as I am looking at it for my wife who also has a disease that has left her unable to use her arms or legs. Voice Control looks very promising and looks to be much better than what Windows currently offers.

 

[BornAgainMac]

My brother is blind and he uses his Mac a lot. I hope these new features help more people out.

 

[mainemini]

I'm looking forward to using Voice Control for dictating instead of typing but the interface for adding vocabulary to the custom dictionary only allows entering one word at a time instead of cutting and pasting word lists etc.

I found the dictionary, com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.Vocabulary.plist , in Library>Preferences and can read it with Plist Editor but haven't figured out how to add word lists. Suggestions?