To resume Voice Control, say or click ”Wake up.” How to use Voice Control To pause Voice Control and stop it from from listening, say ”Go to sleep” or click Sleep. When Voice Control is enabled, you see an onscreen microphone representing the mic selected in Voice Control preferences. When you turn on Voice Control for the first time, your Mac completes a one-time download from Apple. 1 How to turn on Voice ControlĪfter upgrading to macOS Catalina, follow these steps to turn on Voice Control: Voice Control uses the Siri speech-recognition engine to improve on the Enhanced Dictation feature available in earlier versions of macOS. MacOS Catalina introduces Voice Control, a new way to fully control your Mac entirely with your voice.
It’s a handy feature to use in case you can’t access Microsoft. If you use Microsoft Word on your Mac, you can save the documents you create and open them in Pages, Apple’s word processor.
