Names from the screen
Speechy already uses the text in the window you're dictating into. Turn on Read the screen for names and, when an app shows little text Speechy can read, it also reads names from a picture of the window so they come out spelled right. The picture is read on your Mac and never saved.
How to use Names from the screen
Turn it on
Settings, Personalize, Read the screen for names.
Allow Screen Recording
macOS asks once, so Speechy can see the window.
Dictate about what you see
Names drawn on a canvas or in an image count too.
Spelled like the screen
The names match what was on screen.
Onboarding v3What's on screen, what it types
Slack, with a Figma frame open beside itYou say
“thandiwe can you check the halcyon welcome screen”
It types
Thandiwe, can you check the Halcyon welcome screen?
Gmail, with a shared slide on screenYou say
“loved the slide from okonkwo”
It types
Loved the slide from Okonkwo.
Let it read the screen.
In Speechy, Settings, Personalize, under Intelligence & formatting. It needs App Context on.
- Read the screen for namesRead names from images too. Window text is already used.OnOff
Questions
It needs Screen Recording permission. Most apps already share their text with Speechy, so you only need it for apps that draw text as pictures.
No. The text is read from it on your Mac and the image is never saved.
Only when Speechy finds few names in the window's text, and never in apps you've excluded or in password fields.
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