Your Mac has its own brand of built-in dictation software that you can use whenever you need to enter text, and all it takes is a specific keyboard input to get started.

Dictation, on the other hand, works in any app or service on your Mac, meaning you could write an essay in Microsoft Word or leave a comment on YouTube in Safari -- with only your voice.

Keep in mind that when you use Dictation, your words (and some other data) are sent to Apple to be translated into text—much like when you use Siri. Apple says the data is used to improve voice ...

If you're a Mac user and want to use speech dictation software, you either have to use a PC (or a virtual machine) in order to use Dragon, or just plain do without. Until now. Well, sort of.

On the iPhone 4S, that’s the difference between voice dictation and talking to Siri, and on the Mac under Mountain Lion, it’s the difference between the new voice dictation feature in the Dictation & ...

But now, as Walt Mossberg tells us, they have brought most of its features to the Mac through Dragon Dictate 3. This software enables me to perform other tasks on the computer by just talking.

By now just about everyone knows that you can use Siri to take dictation on an iPhone 4S, but what you may not know is that you can also use it on a Mac. If you have an app on your iPhone that ...