Using iOS' Voice Commands to Edit Text
The accessibility features that Apple has built into iPhones are pretty amazing. But they can be very useful even to those of us without the exact disabilities they are designed to help with. The text commands in the Voice Control tool are especially useful to a general audience. This video shows you how to set up your accessibility options to make this work. Commenter Bruce Stricklin adds a great tip: "I would like to emphasize, when dictating in text these commands are used after clicking the microphone off, not when the microphone is on." Yup. The phone has to stop taking dictation before you can start issuing commands (or else it just transcribes the commands instead of following them!).
The accessibility features that Apple has built into iPhones are pretty amazing. But they can be very useful even to those of us without the exact disabilities they are designed to help with. The text commands in the Voice Control tool are especially useful to a general audience. This video shows you how to set up your accessibility options to make this work. Commenter Bruce Stricklin adds a great tip: "I would like to emphasize, when dictating in text these commands are used after clicking the microphone off, not when the microphone is on." Yup. The phone has to stop taking dictation before you can start issuing commands (or else it just transcribes the commands instead of following them!).