Last night I started talking to my MacBook and it heard me. I have not played with it too much but if I take the time to learn the commands it knows, it will do as I say. I was reminded of Scotty in the Star Trek “Save the Wales” movie, “Computer?
“. Anyway, it actually does work in Tiger and I geeked out with it for a while until I started to annoy my wife. :)
It has a silly knock, knock joke feature that I will have to modify to tell “real” jokes. If you set it so that you don’t have to give a pre-command word, like “Computer, what time is it?
“, it will just rattle off the time whenever it hears you say “What time is it?”. Again, I wish it had a Majel Barrett voice, from the Enterprise. That would be slicker than snot.
I think Paramont should license her voice for talking software. I can’t be the only Geek who would be amused by that.
Eventually, I want to record it speaking my novel and then have a cool audio version. With all the “voices” available on Mac, it could be mildly amusing to listen to a story using different voices for each character. Dub in a little sound effects and music and it would sound like a night at the robot opera.
http://www.macuser.com/ihnatko/ihnatko_underused_and_unapprec.php
System Preferences and Speech tab. it launches a little round program icon that “listens” for your commands. Pretty nifty.
That sounds interesting. How did you get the Mac to listen for your voice commands? Is there an online article or resource that has more information?