So careful readers may realize that I have been trying out new speech dictation technology in my iPad. If it only would work, it would remove one of the biggest barriers I have to writing. I’ve never been able to write easily. Actually sitting down every day like I do to write here, has been The best thing I’ve ever done to overcome my fear of writing.
The promise of a technology that would make writing as easy as speaking is almost too wonderful To consider.
The problem is I’m not better a reader as I am a writer… That means when I try to proofread something that I dictated like I am doing right now I often don’t see the errors. At least this way when I’m talking everything maps to a word… it just may not be the word I mean..
Still the technology that I’m using is just the little microphone at the bottom of the iPad does a pretty serviceable job. It allows me to speak at a normal rate and pace. It gets most words correct or at least closed. And it allows me to say certain punctuation like., – “”!?, ;…
As smart as it is it still doesn’t know the difference between 22 and two.
Oh man, really garbled that one.

But any technology that can recognize supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Is pretty cool in my book.

Let’s try some dictated tongue twisters shall we?

She sells seashells by the seashore…
Peter piper picked a peck of peppers
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Not very good in foreign languages though. My Favorite Spanish tongue twister
Pancha plancha con quatro planchas,con cauntos planchas Panca plancha ?
Becomes:

Punch up Logicon Quatro’s contest on toast crunch as punch Uppland?

I going to actually try dictating my next white paper. That will be interesting to see if it can get technical Jarjon correct I’ll let you know how it goes.

That’s it for now more speech tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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