[nfbcs] Using Dictation on the Mac Mini

[David Andrews]

I don't use this combination so I am just guessing here -- but I 
would say that at least in the Windows world voice recognition needs 
lots of memory to run well.  It could be that extended use of your 
system eats up memory or some other resource and eventually it causes 
problems.  You may need to save every few pages, and possibly exit 
and re-enter the program to start fresh.

Dave

At 02:22 PM 1/6/2014, April Brown wrote:
>Hello,
>I am legally blind with hearing and sound comprehension loss.  I 
>bought a Mac Mini about three weeks ago,
>aI went to my one-on-one training at the Apple Store on Saturday. 
>The tech there didn't  know the answers to my problems with the 
>dictation program. I contacted Apple's customer support today, and 
>they did not know the answer either.
>
>I can get dictation to work well on social media, and in e-mail.  If 
>I am using Pages, and it is only a few pages long it works 
>reasonably well.  There are a few odd capitalization errors, For 
>instance it likes to capitalize the first word after a comma.  It 
>also cannot figure out the names of my characters in my novel. And 
>every now and then, no matter how hard I try it can't figure out 
>what I'm saying.
>
>The worst part is though, if I try to work in a document over 20 
>pages, Dictation crashes. And I often can't get it to restart. Does 
>anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you fix it?
>
>Thank you and stay warm and dry in this frozen tundra,
>
>April Brown
>
>Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.