Yeah, I find that whichever setting I use, I sometimes have to go in and turn it off in settings and turning it on again; you don't have to delay or close system preferences in between. I also would rather have it set to continuous speaking but changed it back to holding the key for the time being because I was getting it randomly doing commands I hadn't issued. So it seems a little buggy but i sure would like to be able to use it all the time. I also switched from the escape key to f10 because there seemed to be some conflict when I wanted to use escape in other places. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Maria Chapman <bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi list. > > haven't really read any emails lately so I appologize if this has already > been covered. Has anyone had a chance to play with the speakable items? I > set it up and got the computer to tell me what time it was etc by holding > down the escape key. All of a sudden though it stopped working. dictation > still works but I can't get the speakable items to work no matter whether i > use the setting to always listen for the word computer or holding down the > escape key. Any ideas? Went in to calibrate but I think i may need some > sighted help for that one? Or is there a way to do it successfully? > Apart from that, I'm loving mountain lion and I'm sure there is still heaps > to learn. > > thanks > > Maria Chapman > bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx > > "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - > Mahatma Gandhi >