SkySafari 6 Pro on a new iPad. Voice control is enabled, but I can not get it to respond. What must be said to activate it?
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Keiron Smith Hi Kenneth,
Voice Control (only in iOS 10 and higher)
We are experimenting with voice control of the app in SkySafari 6. Voice control is off by default. If you want to use it, you need to enable it in the "Appearance & Behavior" settings. Turn on "Use Voice Control". This will show a microphone button in the lower left of the chart.
Tap the button to have the app start listening. It will listen for up to 15 seconds after it has last tried to process a command,
There are three types of commands accessible via voice control
- Toolbar button commands
You can perform the equivalent of pressing toolbar buttons by saying the name of the button. This also applies for the buttons in the Scope Control panel (Connect, GoTo, Align, Lock).
- Show, Hide, Toggle commands
Although you can show the time flow panel by saying "Time", it might feel more natural to say "Show Time", "Hide Time" or "Toggle Time". This also works for Scope.
You can also do commands like "Show Settings" rather than "Settings". Show should work for most other screens or panels that can be shown from the main chart view.
- Sky Object commands
There are a series of commands that work on sky objects. These are:
"center on "
"center "
"find information for "
"find info for "
"find "
"select "
"go to "
"orbit "
"search for "
"search "
"show information for "
"show info for "
"show "
Just follow the command with the name of the object.
Note: Recognizing the name of the object is somewhat problematic and we are still trying to fine tune this. Sometime the speech framework gets it right and sometimes not. I am trying to correct some common mistakes it makes but this will take experience with other voices.
Sometimes saying "Messier 15" works better than "M 15"
Sometimes you need to try speaking bit slower and more distinctly.
Generally saying a star name will not work. Apple’s speech recognition dictionary doesn’t have all the star names in it. We can probably enhance it by providing phonetic spellings if we think this feature is worth it.
I also find that when you first turn on voice control, it may miss the very first command. It generally gets better as you go along.
Still need help? Please provide your app and version number. And your iOS version.
Thanks!
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