Great tips for using dic­ta­tion under Moun­tain Lion or a Siri enabled iOS device from Mac­world:

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Enabling Dic­ta­tion

• Visit Sys­tem Pref­er­ences and look for the Dic­ta­tion & Speech in the fourth row of settings.

Once you’ve turned it on, you can decide what short­cut key to use to enable Dictation.

Sam­ple dictation

As you can see from my tests below, it’s not great. It even con­ve­niently “missed” the isn’t in the first sample.

The dic­ta­tion is great but it would work in a pinch.

I use dic­ta­tion to write this part of the post

As you can see it for­got the D and Mr. Cents and I can say. Again.

Attempt­ing to say. This while you’re dic­tat­ing doesn’t work very well because it will put it. Very sad.