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18Installation and Making a Voice ProﬁleMacSpeech Dictate 1.5

TheVoiceTrainingwindow,ready

foryoutostartreadingastory.

Clickthemicrophoneicon(with

thered“stopsign”)tobegin.

Here’swhat’sgoingtohappenwhenyouclickthemicrophoneicon.MacSpeech

Dictatewillturnonthemicrophone(theiconwillchangetoagreencircle)and

willpresentyouwithashortpageof texttoreadaloud—usuallyjustasentence

ortwo.Youmustreadallthetext,includingpunctuation(becausethat’swhatyou

dowhenyoudictate).Tohelpyouwiththis,punctuationisprintedincapitallet-

ters,butyoudon’treaditanyspecialvoice.Youshouldreadinfairlybrief utter-

ances,pausingaftereachutterance.MacSpeechDictatesigniesitsunderstanding

byturningeachutterancegreen.Whenyoureachtheendof thepage(alltexthas

turnedgreen),MacSpeechDictateautomatically“turnsthepage”foryou.

If MacSpeechDictatehastroublewithwhatyousaid,itturnsthecurrentutter-

ancered.If thishappens,youneedtoreadtheredtextagain.If MacSpeechDic-

tatestilldoesn’tunderstand(thesametextremainsred),youcanclickSkipWord

toproceedpastthattext.If youfeelthatthingsarereallygoingbadlyandthat

you’dliketobeginreadingthisstoryalloveragain,clicktheleft-arrowbutton.

Asyouread,keepaneyeonthesoundinputlevelindicator(theverticalbartothe

rightof themicrophoneicon).Speakatalevelthatkeepsthisataboutthemiddle

of thegreensection.