Using Dictation on OSX with Theatre Manager

Voice dictation as a data entry feature is only available on 64 Bit Theatre Manager on mac OSX
Apple has a good online reference and set up that describes dictation and using it with application that are aware.

Recent versions of Theatre Manager support dictation when enabled, typically by hitting Fn + Fn key (twice)

Please read Apple's documentation since Dictation can do:

  • Text Entry so you can place data into fields
  • Navigation with commands like Next Field, Previous Field, New Paragraph
  • Editing with commands like Select All, Undo That, Cut and Paste

There is ample online documentation for Dictation and samples like:

 

Example of text entry in a field with dictation enabled

 

Example dictating to the word processor