What is the dotted blue underlining when I use dictation on OS X? When I use the dictation feature in OS X, sometimes some of my text has got dotted blue underlining below it after entry:



What does this mean? Am I able to use it to correct the mistakes in the text more easily?

I am using OS X 10.8.
This highlighting "hyperlinks" the text, if the system is unsure of what you said. It will typically take a couple of best guesses, and display them as options from which you can choose from. You can see the suggestions by right-clicking the word or control clicking it.

It also selects the text when you click on it, which allows you to simply type a replacement if the options provided aren't correct.

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