Names from Contacts

Turn on Use Contacts for names in Speechy's Settings and your Mac's Contacts become spelling hints for dictation: first and full names, company names and the names in email addresses. You say "tell Saoirse" and get Saoirse, not Sersha. The names stay on your Mac.

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How to use Names from Contacts

  1. Turn it on

    Settings, Personalize, Use Contacts for names.

  2. Allow Contacts

    macOS asks once for access to your Contacts.

  3. Say their name

    Names from your Contacts come out spelled right.

What you say, what it types

Use the names you know.

In Speechy, Settings, Personalize, under Intelligence & formatting. It needs App Context on.

Questions

No. Speechy reads names from Contacts on your Mac and uses them only as spelling hints.

First names, full names, company names and the name part of email addresses. Phone numbers and addresses are not read.

Allow Speechy in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Contacts, then come back to Settings.

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