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When are use the keyboard dictation feature (in accessibility services) it always begins any new dictation with a capital letter. This is the case even when the cursor is initially placed into the middle of a sentence. Is there a way to make keyboard dictation only capitalise the first letter of a new dictation if the cursor is placed after a fullstop, or a new line?
Mac mini 2018 or later
It is not 'extended pause in the middle of speaking'. It is a 'new' dictation, where the start of the dictation (where the cursor is located when I activate the dictation tool) is in the middle of a pre-existing piece of text. For example, in the following sentence, I dictate "this is a sentence", then I put the cursor back to between the "a" and "sentence", then make a new dictation to add the word "edited":
This is a Edited sentence.
See how the word "edited" has a capital letter? Is there no way to automatically NOT capitalise the "e" in edited? That doesn't seem like "mind-reading" for it to realise the cursor is in the middle of a sentence. That seems like a basic grammar check.
Dictation also allows you to say "caps off" or "caps on" prior to resuming your preferred dictated text. Other commands are available by saying "show commands", or reviewing the available commands for dictation.
Other than saying the redoubtable "caps off" before your start that new sentence, I am unaware of any means to fix that mid-sentence, initial capitalization issue in Dictation.
You can provide direct feedback to the macOS product team.
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Try this in System Preferences>Keyboard
Best of luck
I can occasionally make the 'all caps' command work, and punctuation commands do work. But any of the other formatting things - including 'new line' or 'caps off' never respond at all. Moreover, though, even if this did work - is there no automatic way for the system to recognise that the cursor is in the middle of a sentence and therefore to NOT begin the dictation with a capital letter?
Dictation cannot read your mind. 🤓
If what I have suggested in available Dictation keywords, and that of Pete-Progressive-Graphics about disabling Capitalize words automatically do not work for you, then a decision may be necessary about further dictation usage. Since dictation is back to round-trip content to Apple's servers, any extended pause in the middle of speaking will dupe it into starting a new sentence.
Good idea - I tried it...
But no.
The start of new dictation segments is always with a capital letter, regardless of where the cursor is placed, including within an existing sentence.
How to stop automatic first-word capitalisation when using keyboard dictation
