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version is much , o configure and use. Learning
to use WSR is especially worthwhile if your typ- Have your Web Site Advertised here,
ing skills are weak.
e-mail me at editor@lcace.org
You must have a microphone before setting up
Speech Recognition. I found that a set of head- www.pegasusphotos.smugmug.com
phones with a microphone attached works very
well. While it is also possible to find a Windows
microphone in the MS store, a headset or free-
standing mic is recommended.
How to Set Your iPhone to
Once you have a microphone plugged into your
computer and turned on, it’s time to locate and Remember Where You
set up Speech Recognition. In Windows 7, click
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Parked
Access > Speech Recognition. In Win 10, type
‘Speech’ in the Search box and choose the best
match, Speech Recognition, which opens the By Bill Crowe, 1st Vice President, Sarasota Technology User’s
Group, FL
Speech Configuration window, pictured below:
September 2017 issue, Sarasota Monitor
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vp1 (at) thestug.org
It’s no fun to end your trip wandering around
looking for your car. Now, thanks to a new iOS
feature, you don’t have to–let’s look at how to
take advantage of the “Parked Car” reminder in
iOS 10.
What You Need
Over the years, there’s been a plethora of iOS
apps that help remind you where your car is
parked. Some of them are standalone single
Speech Configuration Window purpose apps. Others, like the popular GPS/
driving software Waze, include a parking re-
1. There is a wizard (set of steps) to help minder tool.
you with setup. Click “Start Speech With the release of iOS 10, however, Apple in-
Recognition” to start the wizard. It will troduced a welcome improvement: parking re-
take you through all the steps in the order minders integrated right into the Maps app built
in which they are listed. right into iOS. Now it’s easy to check where our
2. First, you will set up the microphone for car is without third party apps…or remembering
correct placement and volume setting. yourself.
3. The speech tutorial consists of two short
video tutorials that demonstrate the two So, what do you need? First, you’ll need an iOS
main uses for speech recognition: “How device with a GPS chip (all iPhones and cellular
to use WSR to get around your computer” -enabled iPads) running iOS 10 or above.
and “How to use dictation with WSR”. Second, you’ll need a car with Apple’s CarPlay
These are worth watching more than integration or some sort of integrated Bluetooth
once. (the parking reminder uses the loss of the
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