Names from Contacts
Turn on Use Contacts for names in Speechy's Settings and your Mac's Contacts become spelling hints for dictation: first and full names, company names and the names in email addresses. You say "tell Saoirse" and get Saoirse, not Sersha. The names stay on your Mac.
How to use Names from Contacts
Turn it on
Settings, Personalize, Use Contacts for names.
Allow Contacts
macOS asks once for access to your Contacts.
Say their name
Names from your Contacts come out spelled right.
What you say, what it types
Messages
You say
“running late tell saoirse to start without me”
It types
Running late, tell Saoirse to start without me.
GmailYou say
“cc joaquin from halcyon labs”
It types
CC Joaquín from Halcyon Labs.
Use the names you know.
In Speechy, Settings, Personalize, under Intelligence & formatting. It needs App Context on.
- Use Contacts for namesImprove name spelling using Contacts. Stays on your Mac.OnOff
Questions
No. Speechy reads names from Contacts on your Mac and uses them only as spelling hints.
First names, full names, company names and the name part of email addresses. Phone numbers and addresses are not read.
Allow Speechy in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Contacts, then come back to Settings.
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