Alternatively, click 'Edit' on the application's menu, and then select 'Start Dictation.'Ĭlick the 'Done' button or press your shortcut key or keys again to deactivate Dictation when you are finished. Place your cursor at the location where you want to dictate your text, press the shortcut key or keys you chose in Step 4, and then begin dictating your text. You can use any application that has text fields. If you need to dictate text and control your Mac via voice (as opposed to simply transcribing text), you can use full Voice Control. Launch the application where you want to convert voice to text. Click the 'Shortcut' pull-down menu and select which key or series of keys on your keyboard you want to press to notify your Mac that you want it start converting voice to text. If you only have one microphone connected to your Mac, the internal microphone is selected automatically.

Click the microphone icon and select which microphone you want to use. Wait for the Dictate button to turn on and start listening.

Click the 'View' menu, and then select 'Dictation & Speech.'Ĭlick the 'Dictation' tab if it is not selected already, and then click the 'On' radio button to enable dictation. Open a new or existing document and go to Home > Dictate while signed into Microsoft 365 on a mic-enabled device. Unlike Voice Control-which is Apples fully-featured accessibility tool-dictation is easy to use If this is your first time using Dictation, click OK in.

Shortcut to dictate on mac