

(speaking- Show Reader.) Now, of course, to get out of Reader I have another command, it's Hide Reader. I can leave the suggested Show Reader there. So I could change it to just Safari since you're not going to find Show Reader in another application. (speaking- Create Command.) So you could see how it took the menu I was about to select and it put that in here under Perform. So I'm going to wakeup Voice Control and try creating a command. But I want to have that done by a Voice Command. Let's go into Wikipedia here and to an article and now I can click here to go to Reader View. So, for instance, let's say I want to have a shortcut for going to Reader View. All I need to do is speak the command when I'm about to click on it. But in addition to opening a URL I can also assign this to menu commands.

Now when I try to use it, even if I'm here in System Preferences, (speaking- Go To Site Wikipedia.) You can see how well it works. So I change this while using any application and maybe make it a little harder to accidentally say. Since the command is Open URL it will automatically open up my default browser. I can have it work in other apps, not just Safari. So you can see I can change what it says. If I look down Voice Control under Commands I'll see this command at the top of the list under Custom. All I need to do is go to the page I want to go to and then say Create Command and it will create command for that URL. I can continue to add more commands like this. (Wikipedia) So you can see how easy that worked. So back here at I'll wakeup Voice Control and I'll try it out. All I have here is Wikipedia as the phrase I need to speak. Then for Open URL the parameter is the website it is going to go to. There are a variety of other things you could choose which could be interesting in other situations. So I could say Wikipedia and while using I can do any application but it makes more sense to just choose the application I'm currently using so Safari. (speaking-Create Command.) So now you can see here I come up with this custom interface and for When I say: I could type whatever I want. So now that I'm at this webpage it's actually easy to do. Well you can! All you need to do is use that Create Command or Make this Speakable in order to create your own custom voice control. Now wouldn't it be great if you could just go to a webpage, especially one you visit all the time. (speaking- Show Grid, Choose 3, Choose 9, Click 3, (speaking- Click File, Click Open Location,, Press Return.) So you could see there that works. This is one way I could do it without a custom command. Now let's say I want to navigate somewhere, like to the Apple Website in Safari. I'm going to put it to sleep and let's go to Safari. So now I've got this control here at the bottom.
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I don't want my Mac to confuse that with a Command. I'm going to have to do that a lot here since I'm talking to you in making this tutorial. I'm going to turn on Enable Voice Control and then I'm going to get a little control there that I can turn On or Off.
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I'm going to use Safari to give you an idea of how this will make things a lot easier. You can use that to make your own custom commands that will appear here at the top. You could see some other options here like Create Command. The Command for that is in the list here to Make this Speakable. You can define your own commands that speed things up a great deal. But that usually takes a lot of describing to show exactly which menu item you want to trigger or what you want to click on on the screen. Most of all you can access anything in the Menu Bar and you can click anywhere on the screen. Once you enable it there's a list of commands that you can look at here. You get to them by going in System Preferences to Accessibility then looking for Voice Control on the left.
So I've talked about voice control commands in the past. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 800 supporters.
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Today let me show you how to create voice control custom commands on your Mac. Check out Creating Custom Voice Control Commands For Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
