How to change the text-to-speech voice on your Mac computer, or give it a new language
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-change-speech-voice-on-mac
Highlight the text and press “Option + Esc” keys.
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Dictate your messages and documents on Mac
double press the “Command” key (if you are using OS Catalina)
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more on voice recognition in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=voice+recognition
Quickly Dictate Notes in Multiple Languages on Dictation.io
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/03/quickly-dictate-notes-in-multiple.html#.WW-stnqHqzB
Dictation.io is a good tool to add to yesterday’s list of free tools for dictating notes.
Dictation.io doesn’t require students to register in order to use it. It also supports more than two dozen languages. Those two aspects of Dictation.io make it accessible to students who don’t have Google Docs accounts and to those who don’t speak English as their first language.
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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/02/three-free-tools-students-can-use-to.html
Mic Note is a free Chrome and Android app that allows you to create voice recordings, text notes, and image-based notes
Evernote users can make audio recordings on iOS and Android devices. Follow Evernote’s directions available here to learn how to dictate a note on an iOS device.
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more on voice recognition in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=voice+recognition