MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Safari with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.3. These same commands work with MacSpeech Dictate 1.2 but if you’re using that you should update to version 1.3 immediately – it’s free to do so and will only enhance your dictation experience.
This list doesn’t show you all the commands which are available for Safari – just the ones that I think you’re likely to use very frequently. It also doesn’t show the global commands which are available in Safari as they are in all other applications – there are already command lists and a cheat sheet for the globals. That list is marked as for version 1.2.1 but also works with Dictate version 1.3.
The sheet is a half page format that you can easily print out and refer to while you work. I’m making a PDF available for easy printing, and a version in the original Pages ’08 format for those who might want to edit it for themselves. I’ve also created versions in both A4 and US Letter page sizes, which should cover everybody’s standard page sizes.
- MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 Safari Cheat Sheet, US, PDF
- MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 Safari Cheat Sheet, A4, PDF
- MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 Safari Cheat Sheet, US, Pages
- MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 Safari Cheat Sheet, A4, Pages
These documents aren’t in any way meant to replace the Dictate User’s Manual – every Dictate user really should read the manual, even if you’re not the “manual reading type”. Trust me, you’ll get far better use of Dictate if you have read the manual! But nobody’s memory is perfect, especially for a program with so many commands, so I’ve made these cheat sheets to go with the manual.
If you edit these for yourself, let me know what you come up with – I’d love to see.
- Ricky Buchanan
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I’m really big on working with the macintosh computer and I use Voice Over as my speech. Is Mac Dictate the same thing?
@Russell: Their function is opposite – VoiceOver lets the computer talk to you, MacSpeech Dictate lets you talk to the computer.