Here’s how to create custom Voice Control commands on your Mac. Customize your Voice Control commands. To get started, say Open Voice Control Preferences or navigate to Apple icon > System Preferences > Accessibility > Voice Control. Say Click Commands or use the Commands button.
Control Commands Full Keyboard AccessTo learn how to enable full keyboard access in a Mac, see Set up your device to work with accessibility in Microsoft 365. A variation of VoiceOver is also available on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. VoiceOver uses the Control and Option keys before each command. The Note: If a shortcut requires pressing two or more keys at the same time, this topic separates the keys with a plus sign (+). If you have to press one key immediately after another, the keys are separated by a comma (,).Today let me show you how to create voice control custom commands on your Mac.MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 800 supporters. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com. Check out Creating Custom Voice Control Commands For Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. The Option key functions similarly to the AltGr key on many PC keyboards, which explains why it also has Alt printed on it.Below are the keyboard commands for viewing your webpage source code for both PC and Mac.Once you enable it there's a list of commands that you can look at here. Then you have to enable it. You get to them by going in System Preferences to Accessibility then looking for Voice Control on the left. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts.So I've talked about voice control commands in the past. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign.You can use that to make your own custom commands that will appear here at the top. You could see some other options here like Create Command. The Command for that is in the list here to Make this Speakable. You can define your own commands that speed things up a great deal. But that usually takes a lot of describing to show exactly which menu item you want to trigger or what you want to click on on the screen. I don't want my Mac to confuse that with a Command. I'm going to have to do that a lot here since I'm talking to you in making this tutorial. I'm going to turn on Enable Voice Control and then I'm going to get a little control there that I can turn On or Off. First I'm going to select my microphone. (speaking- Click File, Click Open Location, Apple.com, Press Return.) So you could see there that works. This is one way I could do it without a custom command. Now let's say I want to navigate somewhere, like to the Apple Website in Safari. You could see how it stays on top. I'm going to put it to sleep and let's go to Safari. So I'll just wake this up and use it. So now that I'm at this webpage it's actually easy to do. Well you can! All you need to do is use that Create Command or Make this Speakable in order to create your own custom voice control. All I have here is Wikipedia as the phrase I need to speak. Then for Open URL the parameter is the website it is going to go to. There are a variety of other things you could choose which could be interesting in other situations. It recognizes that already. What do I want it to do? Well, Open URL. So I could say Wikipedia and while using I can do any application but it makes more sense to just choose the application I'm currently using so Safari. All I need to do is go to the page I want to go to and then say Create Command and it will create command for that URL.If I look down Voice Control under Commands I'll see this command at the top of the list under Custom. I can continue to add more commands like this. (Wikipedia) So you can see how easy that worked. So I change this while using any application and maybe make it a little harder to accidentally say. Since the command is Open URL it will automatically open up my default browser. I can have it work in other apps, not just Safari. So you can see I can change what it says. So I'm going to wakeup Voice Control and try creating a command. But I want to have that done by a Voice Command. Let's go into Wikipedia here and to an article and now I can click here to go to Reader View. So, for instance, let's say I want to have a shortcut for going to Reader View. All I need to do is speak the command when I'm about to click on it. But in addition to opening a URL I can also assign this to menu commands. Flv media player for mac os x(speaking- Hide Reader.) So I can take any command here that I want, anything in the menu, and turn that into a command I can instantly execute without having to trigger the menu and then trigger the item itself.This works for other apps too. (speaking- Create Command) and I'll change this to Safari and leave everything else as is. (speaking- Show Reader.) Now, of course, to get out of Reader I have another command, it's Hide Reader. I can leave the suggested Show Reader there. So I could change it to just Safari since you're not going to find Show Reader in another application. ![]() Then I could use voice control to type what I want to type and quickly and easily respond to email. So I could make that Send This Message. So I could add one for that as well. So you can see I can type anything I want. For instance, Create Command. You can add these in System Preferences or you can try creating a command when there's nothing to do. I could really do it much faster if I assign Commands to the things I use often.Now there's other things you can do as well. Then I would have to be calling up menus, finding the menu item, and all of that. So now when I want to start an email I can easily insert that. So you can see I've got a little intro here and a couple of blank lines. I can type whatever I want here. It lets you choose more than one. When you choose that it's going to prompt you for some Finder items to open. There's also the interesting option, Open Finder Items. You could even, of course, run an automator workflow if you want to create something more complex. You could also select a Menu and then type what that menu is. So you could actually choose a keyboard shortcut if that's the fastest way to create this command. Here's that image and here is that text file opened up in TextEdit.So Voice Control is already pretty powerful on your Mac. (speaking- open my projects files.) Now you could see all three of those things opened. Now I can type something like that and let's give that one a try. All three are listed there.
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