# Fun with Dictation in Mac OSX Mountain Lion... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611 "2012-07-27T21:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/1 "2012-07-27T21:31:57Z")
If any of you have installed the new Mac OSX Mountain Lion, now’s your chance to generate _minutes_ of fun! In the Reply Box, double-tap the Function key to activate Dictation mode. Speak complete gibberish, like an alien robot going haywire and post the results here. I’ll go first… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/2 "2012-07-27T21:32:59Z")
By the Duschner it to both not to snore Schnieder bored. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/3 "2012-07-27T21:39:55Z")
BP Leo and don’t be back beaten Banche ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/4 "2012-07-27T21:43:20Z")
Sad I am in New Orleans Naupaka do dinner Fornum room. ---
**Author:** ![Fit\_newbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/53a042/32.png) [@Fit\_newbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fit_newbie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/5 "2012-07-27T23:19:24Z")
Hey what’s up my man what’s up with that they got going on down there. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/6 "2012-07-28T00:16:59Z")
Leaving in a minute about buddy bye-bye ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/7 "2012-07-28T00:49:03Z")
I laddish number it up at the beach the number noumena did you ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/8 "2012-07-28T04:35:49Z")
Not “Mountain Lion” but iPhone 4S dictation: Mayors eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat baby I Kiteley baby to wouldn’t you I’m impressed with how much of the “call will be good” it was able to decipher correctly. But then it failed to recognize “gobbledygook”! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/9 "2012-07-29T05:00:20Z")
Heh. That iPhone one is sorta creepy. No. No I won’t eat baby, let alone put her in the corner. I’m glad the mayor’s getting his portions of grains though. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/10 "2012-07-29T06:29:38Z")
@ **cmyk** : for our younger readers, allow me to clarify. The sample I dictated was from a popular tune from the 1940s, [“Mairzy Doats”](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/11 "2012-07-30T02:03:08Z")
Ahh, I wasn’t aware of that tune. I thought you spoke improvised gibberish, and that’s what resulted (although the lyrics being gibberish themselves, that’s not bad). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/12 "2012-07-30T02:07:27Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > Mayors eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat baby I Kiteley baby to wouldn’t you […Oh, oh, dog biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn’t get snappy.](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/13 "2012-07-31T04:46:44Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > @ **cmyk** : for our younger readers, allow me to clarify. The sample I dictated was from a popular tune from the 1940s, [“Mairzy Doats”](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats). There also seemed to be a resurrection of this song in children’s music classes in the '90s. When I went to college, quite a few people knew it. Sorry, BTW, I don’t have any Apple product to test with. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/14 "2012-07-31T05:16:35Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > There also seemed to be a resurrection of this song in children’s music classes in the '90s. When I went to college, quite a few people knew it. Yeah, I’m familiar with it, and I was born in the mid-70s. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/15 "2012-07-31T06:05:12Z")
I tried this with the Dragon Dictation app on my iPod. I think it just outright ignores most of the gibberish. “I’m going to happen that I had undergone it but I’m not that we don’t love you Shahaka reward the bag about it I think” I want to add that speaking in gibberish was extremely pleasurable, and now I understand the whole “speaking in tongues” fad. If I weren’t worried about the looks I’d get, I’d be tempted to do it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-dictation-in-mac-osx-mountain-lion/629611/16 "2012-08-01T18:46:32Z")
I’m assuming I’m home and I’m What I actually said: “hoomalommaseemalommmahoomalommaseemalomma…”