Safari Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.3

By Ricky Buchanan • March 23, 2009

This entry is part 13 of 19 in the series Speech-to-Text Compilation

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.

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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About the Author

Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

3 Comments For “Safari Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.3”

applecolors (Pedro Presilha) Apr 5th, 2009 at 1:03 am

Learn and remember the commands for controlling Safari with MacSpeech Dictate: http://bit.ly/steRI
Russell Callahan Apr 13th, 2009 at 6:30 am

I’m really big on working with the macintosh computer and I use Voice Over as my speech. Is Mac Dictate the same thing?
Ricky Buchanan Apr 16th, 2009 at 11:17 am

@Russell: Their function is opposite - VoiceOver lets the computer talk to you, MacSpeech Dictate lets you talk to the computer.

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