{"id":12712,"date":"2012-12-19T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:54:33","slug":"using-voice-dictation-on-your-ipad-or-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2012\/using-voice-dictation-on-your-ipad-or-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Use Voice Dictation on your iPad or iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tip: Use Voice Dictation on your iPad or iPhone\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>iOS has built-in Voice Dictation. This feature is available on the iPad 3 or newer, including the iPad Mini, as well as on &nbsp;the iPhone 4S and newer iPhone 5. You must perform a one-time activation of the Dictation feature, viz:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Settings > General > Dictation ON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereafter, in any app that puts up on the on-screen keyboard (e.g. Notes, Pages, etc), the voice Dictation button appears immediately to the left of the spacebar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tap the Dictation key and dictate. When finished, tap the Dictation key again and your text will appear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Since Dictation uses cloud-based computing to convert your speech into text, you must have a network connection (WiFi or 3G) to use dictation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More tips<\/strong>: <a href=\"[dalink]40[\/dalink]\">carleton.ca\/iteam\/tips<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"references\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5176\">iOS: Voice Dictation<\/a>, Apple.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectronicsinoz.com\/blog\/new-technologies\/how-to-activate-and-use-voice-dictation-via-th\">How to activate and use Voice Dictation via the iPad and iPhone onscreen keyboard<\/a>, Greg O&#8217;Connor, spectronicsinoz.com, Apr 3 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ipad.about.com\/od\/ipad_tips\/ss\/How-To-Use-Ipad-Voice-Dictation.htm\">How to Use iPad Voice Dictation<\/a>, Daniel Nations, About.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5449\">Mac Basics: Dictation<\/a> (these textual commands work in iOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iOS has built-in Voice Dictation. This feature is available on the iPad 3 or newer, including the iPad Mini, as well as on &nbsp;the iPhone 4S and newer iPhone 5. You must perform a one-time activation of the Dictation feature, viz: Thereafter, in any app that puts up on the on-screen keyboard (e.g. Notes, Pages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}