OS X’s built-in dictation feature works pretty well, but with a simple setting change, you can enable on-the-fly dictation, even when offline. In this week’s video, we show you how. An underused ...

If the accuracy of the enhanced dictation service in OS X Mavericks suddenly drops, there are several things you can try to fix the problem. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

I've been fiddling with the dictation feature in Mavericks and am having a blast with it. I never felt that the cost of Dragon Naturally Speaking was worth it for me as I'm a fast typist. However, the ...

Speech recognition has long been the holy grail of computer data input. Or, rather, we have mostly wanted to control our computers via voice—see episodes of Star Trek from the 1960s. The problem has ...