Mac Talk Pretty One Day: How to Make Speech Recognition Useful

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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Lifehacker has an excellent how-to on creating custom voice commands for OS X. I’ve always wanted to use my Mac’s voice recognition but saying “open Word” wasn’t my idea of a red-hot time. In this article, we learn how to make cute little Applescripts to do tiny little things like change brushes in Photoshop. I should make a bunch to write blog posts:

tell application “System Events” to keystroke “the wii is the se><0Rz!!"

Hack Attack: Make your Mac’s Speech Recognition work for you [Lifehacker]

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