Re: Dictation Software for Mac
Dragon¡¯s product for the Macintosh was easily the best available. ¡°Was¡± being the operative word¡it¡¯s been discontinued for years now. The Web site that you cited is for a very old version.
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: iPhone plays dead
If the case is that you let it go to sleep and can¡¯t wake it up, then set it to never sleep. After a period of use, turn it off when you¡¯re not using it and see if you can wake it up then. The bad
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Jerald Levinson
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Re: iPhone plays dead
Thanks Bob, As I told Jerry, this happens when I am not actively using it, when the screen is normally dark. It just will not wake up.
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Steve Bee
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Re: iPhone plays dead
Thanks Jerry, I am sorry that I wasn't clear. The screen is black, as it should be when it is "sleeping" but nothing that I can do will wake it. It doesn't happen when I am actively "using" it, only
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Steve Bee
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Re: iPhone plays dead
I¡¯ve had the same case on my XS for a couple of years. As of late, I believe it is giving me some problems with the screen becoming unresponsive. Especially after a phone call when I find I can not
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Bob Hasselbrink
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Re: iPhone plays dead
By ¡°become unresponsive¡± do you mean the phone freezes? The screen is still on but you can¡¯t get it to do anything? Or does it shut down completely? Go black? What is the battery charge level
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Jerald Levinson
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Re: iPhone plays dead
On my machine there is no "Touch" settings. There is "Touch ID & Passcode".? Within that there is no "Tap (screen) to Wake" "Also any button should wake it"? Brent, that is exactly the problem, it
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Steve Bee
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Re: iPhone plays dead
It is in the same case that it has been for over 2 years. What do you mean by "the proximity sensors"?
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Steve Bee
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Re: iPhone plays dead
The device has been reliable for ~2.5 yrs. and for 10 months with the same version of the iOS. Since I have not changed anything, I would like to try to find out what is causing the problem. Just
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Steve Bee
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Re: iPhone plays dead
Check Settings> Touch> Tap (screen) to Wake is on. Also any button should wake it. As a last resort, find the Back Tap setting and turn it on to something. I think it might be in Accessibility. Brent
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Brent
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Re: iPhone plays dead
Is it in a case? Some will interfere with the proximity sensors and cause weird things to happen. Bob
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Bob Hasselbrink
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Re: iPhone plays dead
Software updates are commonly a tactic for better device reliability. Is anything holding you back from upgrading to iOS 16?
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Ben Rosenthal
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iPhone plays dead
This is about an iPhone SE 2020; iOS 15.7.1 I have been using it for 2yrs. 4 months. It has been working fine. Today, for the 3rd time in a week the iPhone has become unresponsive. The only way I
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Steve Bee
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Re: Dictation Software for Mac
In a weird coincidence, the drivel at the end of my message ("hey is there a van Cinderella¡¡±) is the result of the built-in dictation on my Mac picking up a conversation in the background about a
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Vincent Cayenne
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One Drive?
Hi All A few weeks ago I started getting One Drive emails that have anniversary pictures of places I have been. All my pictures are stored on my MacBook. Where did Microsoft get them and how to
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Michael
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Re: Dictation Software for Mac
I¡¯m curious, Randy. Where does the Dragon product ¡°Dictate for Mac¡± fall in all of this? <https://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/Custom/pbpage.resp-grad-dragon-int-dictate> The main Dragon site
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Vincent Cayenne
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Re: Dictation Software for Mac
The hands-down favorite used to be Dragon. However, they exited the Macintosh market. Apple has licensed their technology, and that¡¯s what you see built-in to the Mac OS, but Apple hasn¡¯t
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Randy B. Singer
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Dictation Software for Mac
I just had an amazing experience using https://www.notta.ai/en which is an AI transcription service that can take an audio file and transcribe it to a text file. I had a fairly long (60 minutes) file
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John Hay <OceanCity@...>
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Re: Kensington system preference files
Correct. The process was: reinstall the OS and then migrate apps and settings from a previous backup. The previous backup allows me to recover the preferences that had been changed. Paul
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Paul Lundgren <pflundgren021@...>
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Re: Kensington system preference files
And those settings remained after reverting to the later OS? Otto
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Otto Nikolaus
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