VoiceOver is an Accessibility feature that makes the iPhone and iPad easier to operate for the blind and sight-impaired. With VoiceOver, anyone with a visual impairment can have their iPhone or iPad's screen read to them, including buttons, icons, links, and other interface elements, and use gestures to navigate and select their options. Sep 24, 2019 You can use dictation instead of your keyboard to enter text with many apps and features that use the keyboard on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. On iPhone 6s or later, and iPad, you can use dictation without being connected to the Internet.
Earlier this week Microsoft finally launched Office for iPad. The popular productivity suite, made up of Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, has landed on Apple’s tablet absolutely free, but there is a caveat. Office for iPad apps can be used for reading, viewing and presentation only. If users want the full editing and composing power, they need an Office 365 subscription. However, a loophole left open by Microsoft makes it possible to use Office for iPad without Office 365 subscription.
An Office 365 subscription gives subscribers the ability to install Office on up to five PCs and Macs, as well as on up to five tablets. The loophole makes it possible to install Office apps on virtually limitless iPads, Microsoft isn’t strictly enforcing the five tablet limit. The loophole is easy to exploit. Someone with a valid Office 365 account simply needs to sign in to any Office for iPad app. Once that happens, the tablet is automatically authenticated for Office apps and any future users, even if they haven’t paid for the subscription.
This will also remove the prompt which reminds users that they have to pay for a 365 subscription to unleash Office for iPad’s power. Even the users’ data will sync with Office Mobile iPhone app and they will be automatically signed into full versions of all other Office apps once they sign in to the first one.
Technically this does violate limits defined by Microsoft in its EULA or end user rights agreement. While Microsoft doesn’t strictly enforce the tablet installations limit, it trusts that “users respect and understand device limits outlined in the EULA.”
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On iPhone 6s or later, and iPad, you can use dictation without being connected to the Internet. Earlier models of iPhone and iPad require an Internet connection.1
Dictate text
To enter text, tap the microphone button on your keyboard, then start speaking. As you speak, the text appears on the screen. To finish, stop speaking, then tap the keyboard button .
If dictation isn’t sure what word it heard, you'll see a blue line under the transcribed word so you can check it for accuracy. To make corrections, tap the underlined word, then select the correct spelling. To replace a word, double-tap it, tap the microphone button , then say it again, and tap the keyboard button .
To replace a section, select what you want to replace, then tap the microphone button and speak again. To add more text, tap where you want to add new text, tap the microphone button , then speak again.
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To change the language that dictation uses, long press the microphone button , then select the language you want to use.
Use punctuation and formatting
You can add punctuation by saying what you want. For example, 'Hello John comma the check is in the mail exclamation mark' becomes 'Hello John, the check is in the mail!'
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Here are some common punctuation and formatting commands that you can use:
- Quote/end quote: begin and end a quote
- New paragraph: start a new paragraph
- New line: begin a new line
- Cap: capitalize the next word
- Caps on/caps off: capitalize the first character of each word
- Smiley: insert :-)
- Frowny: insert :-(
- Winky: insert ;-)
- Not all languages are supported by offline dictation.