09-05-2007, 06:49 PM

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Hello hello!

oh boy, im sooo happy! Just plugged my imac! Ive been waiting for this moment for years and years!

With that said, I have a stupid question! A couple of years ago a firend bought a 17" imac and when he pressed ESC and said TELL ME A JOKE the mac would tell him a joke! Is that still available? how does it work?

i know its silly...

09-05-2007, 06:59 PM

You have to turn on Speakable Items (System Preferences>Speech). It allows you to do a lot of things by voice commands besides asking for jokes

09-05-2007, 07:05 PM

Silly, stupid, yes. Neat, of course.

It's in the Speech Recognition pane of System preferences. You can turn it on, then when it's listening say 'Computer, tell me a joke' and it'll tell you a joke (apparently a knock knock joke) with the text to speech voice.

It's one of the little things.

09-05-2007, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by walkerj

Silly, stupid, yes. Neat, of course.

It's in the Speech Recognition pane of System preferences. You can turn it on, then when it's listening say 'Computer, tell me a joke' and it'll tell you a joke (apparently a knock knock joke) with the text to speech voice.

It's one of the little things.

Oh that is so cool...is that available on Macbooks as well?

09-05-2007, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by bittenapple

Oh that is so cool...is that available on Macbooks as well?

Yeah it is, I just tried it. Had no idea that was there. Not as cool as you think really...I turned it back off after about 10 seconds.

09-06-2007, 01:56 AM

yeah, my jokes were lame

09-06-2007, 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by Brandon

Yeah it is, I just tried it. Had no idea that was there. Not as cool as you think really...I turned it back off after about 10 seconds.

Lol!

09-06-2007, 04:24 AM

The tank one really made me laugh! lol

Thank you all for the help!