Air Dictate
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Our apologies! The Air Dictate app is no longer available.
However, if you already have Air Dictate, you may still download the Air Dictate Receiver software for your Mac.
Install Air Dictate on your iPhone 4S, and the free Air Dictate Receiver app on your Mac.
Works with any app
Launch any Mac app that allows text entry, and Air Dictate can dictate to it.
No wires needed
Works over your WiFi network or an ad-hoc network.
Easy to Use
First, on your Mac
- Launch any app that allows text input. For example: TextEdit, Mail, Pages, Microsoft Word.
Then, on your iPhone 4S
- Launch the Air Dictate app.
- Choose your Mac from a list of nearby computers.
- Press the microphone button, speak for a while, and press the button again to stop.
Helpful Tips
There are two ways to dictate to Air Dictate:
- Press the Mic button to start; Speak; Press the Mic button again to send.
- Hold the iPhone up to your ear; Speak; Move the iPhone away to send.
If you are having trouble connecting, make sure both your Mac and iPhone are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
If you do not have a reliable Wi-Fi network connection, you can use an ad hoc network:
- On your Mac, select “Create Network” in the Wi-Fi menu.
- In your iPhone’s Settings app, choose that Network in the Wi-Fi settings
If no text appears on your Mac, make sure you are running in an app that accepts text input, and that it is in a state that accepts typed text.
If you want to uninstall Air Dictate from your Mac, select Uninstall in the Air Dictate Preferences.
You can speak special commands to help you control the dictation
- Cap or Capital capitalizes the next word: “His name is cap Mark"
- Caps On and Caps Off are for titles: “Check out the caps on Air Display caps off app”
- All Caps, All Caps On, All Caps Off capitalize all letters: “Are you all caps CRAZY or is it all caps on JUST ME all caps off”
- No Caps, No Caps On, and No Caps Off disable auto-capitalization: “The White House is a no caps on white house no caps off”
- Space Bar inserts a space. It can also prevent auto-hyphenization: “The bug space bar infested the bug-infested pond”
- No Space, No Space On, and No Space Off let you run words together.
- New Line starts the following text on a new line (inserts one return)
- New Paragraph begins a new paragraph (inserts two returns)
- Begin Quote and End Quote (or Quote and Unquote) for “double quotes”
- Begin Single Quote and End Single Quote for ‘single quotes’
Punctuation, Symbols, Other Characters
- ~ tilde
- ! exclamation point
- @ at sign
- # pound sign
- $ dollar sign
- % percent sign
- ^ caret
- & ampersand
- * asterisk
- = equal sign
- + plus sign
- ÷ division sign
- - minus sign
- ± plus or minus sign
- | vertical bar
- / slash
- \ back slash
- µ micro sign
- ™ trademark sign
- © copyright sign
- ® registered sign
- § section sign
- ¶ paragraph sign
- ¢ cent sign
- ° degree sign
- £ pound sterling sign
- € Euro sign
- - hyphen
- – dash or en-dash
- — em-dash or hyphen
- _ underscore
- … ellipsis
- ( open parenthesis or left parenthesis
- ) close parenthesis or right parenthesis
- { open curly bracket or open brace
- } close curly bracket, close brace
- [ open square bracket
- ] close square bracket
- < open angle bracket
- > close angle bracket
- . period
- , comma
- ; semicolon
- : colon
- ? question mark
- ° degree sign
- :-) smiley
- :-( frowny
- ;-) winky
