



After testing word processing apps, I got interested in finding a decent speech to text app. The best one I found that was free is Dragon Dictation. For a few laughs, here are some examples of how the app worked:
iPad, with case:
Sometimes you just don’t want to type because typing can be slow if it hurt your hands or just forever reason typing just doesn’t say give so talking sometime stalking can be quicker this is an app to change speech speech into text so right now I’m dictating on my iPad and let’s see how it went
iPad, no case:
Dragon is a free app that lets you change speech into text so this is my second attempt on this time I take my iPad out of the case so I’m thinking that the case made it more difficult for the app to tile my words apart I’m also speaking in a normal tone I’m not going to slow but I’m trying to avoid going to fast iced don’t want to sound really odd to my roommate
iPhone:
Okay Sinan trying it on my phone I find this very interesting it’s odd to just talk to well your device but sometimes I have ideas or just thoughts that I want to get down and perhaps I don’t have a piece of paper handy or just don’t want to write because I type a lot for a living and sometimes I just want to give my hands break so now I find myself actually talking a little bit quicker because I do want this to feel on more natural like I’m doing regular dictation on Dragon is easy to use him after you install you’re prompted to choose your language agree to the terms on you can even opt to have him the names of your contacts added to the vocabulary you just tap on the screen and you start talking when you’re done you tap the screen again
The app doesn’t do punctuation, but that’s fine with me. Dragon Dictation does have a keyboard, so you can make corrections before exporting it; my preferred method of exporting is email. You can also post your dictation to Facebook or Twitter. If you’re using Dragon on the iPhone, you can dictate a text and send it from the app. Another option is to copy and paste into another app. I was able to paste into iA Writer, but not Quickoffice. The app doesn’t save your work if you use the iPhone version, but the iPad version saved my work until I exported it.
I liked using my iPhone because it felt more natural, but I don’t like that I lose my words if I close Dragon before I export. Holding up the iPad was awkward, but it does record well when it was flat on my desk, even with my iPad case on. I was surprised how well the app worked. Dragon Dictation did get some of my words wrong, but it got most of my words correct.
Dragon Dictation, by Nuance Communications, is free, works on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, is rated 4+, and requires iOS 4.0 or later.