Speak to Text
Now I can't take even a little bit of credit for the finding of this new tool but I think it's to good not to share. I must admit that I had a small work around before this. I would email myself from my phone and use the speak to text on my phone in order to compose the email/assignment. I have now been shown that in Google documents you can turn on your microphone and do speak to text on your laptop or computer. I have played around with it a little and notice that it's has much better accuracy than the previous option talked about. I have some more work to do with it but in the future I will be posting a how to and the pros and cons of this speak to text.
Hi Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you could do this in google docs. Im looking forward to your directions. In the mean time I think I will go the a look at it and see If I can figure it out on my own. This could come in pretty handy for a number of applications. I have always seemed to have trouble trying to save a google documents to the hard drive. Or even worse... trying to build a new document using material from multiple google docs. For example building a report at work. So I have been avoiding using them. I guess I just need to figure out what they are good at, and stay away from what they aren't so good at. Thanks for the information.
Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI was not aware of this feature on Google Docs either. I know you can speak on Google to search something, but I had no idea there was a voice command on Google Docs. I will be watching for your future post regarding this! I think as technology advances, we will find more features like this on frequently used apps that we were not aware of before. I think application creators are starting to think about the users convenience and what makes their product different from others. This definitely sets Google Docs apart, from other word processors, such as Microsoft Word. I look forward to your future blog post regarding this topic. I am going to try it later today. Thanks for the tip! :)