-DICTATION-[macOS VOICE CONTROL]

-as of [14 APRIL 2025]-

*DICTATION* —>

-WHEN YOU ARE “CLICKED INTO A “TEXT BOX”, YOU CAN DICTATE [TEXT INPUT]-

(YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CLICK ANY “DICTATION BUTTON” FIRST)

“DICTATION MODE”

Higher power

(the first letter will be automatically capitalized)

“SELECT ALL”

“LOWERCASE THAT”

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(all characters are changed to “lowercase”)

Higher Power

“LOWERCASE THAT”

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hiGher poWer

“LOWERCASE THAT”

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“UPPERCASE THAT”

HIGHER POWER

“DOCUMENT NAME”

*[SPECIAL CHARACTER] COMMANDS* —>

“question mark” —>

“percent sign” —>

“happy emoji” —>

*TEXT NAVIGATION* —>

(when you are clicked into the “text input box”, say “command mode” so that your “spoken commands” are not mistaken as “dictation”)

*when in “command mode”, you will see this symbol in “bottom left corner” of [text input box]* —>

-to switch back to dictation, say “dictation mode”-

“MOVE

The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the “Dark Blues”)^[1] and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the “Light Blues”).^[1] First held in 1829, the race takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London.^[2] The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; the race is followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide.^[3][4] Cambridge would have gone into the race as champions, having won the 2019 race by a margin of five lengths,^[5] and would have led overall with 84 victories to Oxford’s 80 (excluding the 1877 race, a dead heat).^[6][7]

The autumn reception, where the previous year’s losing team challenges the winners to a rematch, was held at the Chapel Down Gin Works in London on 20 November 2019. As Cambridge’s women had won the previous year’s race, it was Oxford’s responsibility to offer the traditional challenge to the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club (CUWBC). To that end, Tina Christmann, President of Oxford University Women’s Boat Club (OUWBC), laid down the gauntlet to Larkin Sayre, her Cambridge counterpart. Cambridge’s victory in the men’s race meant that Augustin Wambersie, President of Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC), challenged Freddie Davidson, President of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC).^[8]r

The races were all scheduled to take place on 29 March 2020.^[9] The 75th women’s race was to be umpired by Judith Packer, while the 166th men’s race would have been officiated by Sarah Winckless. It would have been the first time in the history of the event that both senior races were to be umpired by women

To move around and select text, you can use commands like “Move up two sentences” or “Move forward one paragraph” or “Select previous word” or “Select next paragraph.”

To format text, try “Bold that” or “Capitalize that,” for example. Say “numeral” to format your next phrase as a number.

To delete text, you can choose from many delete commands.

For example, say “delete that” and Voice Control knows to delete what you just typed.

Or say “Delete all” to delete everything and start over.

To dictate character by character, say “Spelling Mode,” then speak each character.

This feature requires macOS Ventura or later and isn’t available in all languages.

Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands.

For example, to dictate and then send a birthday greeting in Messages, you could say “Happy Birthday. Click Send.”

Or to replace a phrase, say “Replace I’m almost there with I just arrived.”

To manually switch between modes, say:

“Command Mode”

“Dictation Mode”