This is what sound looks like.
This is an experiment.*
I am NOT typing. I am speaking into my cell phone and the voice recognition software transforms what I say into text. That explains why the title is so strange. Maybe I miss pronounce the word. maybe I miss pronounce a word and that’s why the title doesn’t make any sense. Also that’s why you just read I miss pronounce the word twice. What I meant to say was “I miss pronounced the word”… or whatever. I will leave everything as is. I will only add punctuation and paragraphs so it’s easier to read.
As you can see the voice recognition software is pretty accurate. It makes some mistakes but nothing that I can’t edit or correct later on. This is the perfect feature for someone as lazy as me. The advice I could give you this time is to try it. You’ll see how fast you’ll write your blog posts.
Now, let me tell you about something that doesn’t have anything to do with the voice recognition software, to see how it goes.
I just woke up after a very bad nightmare. I was in the bathroom and I looked in the mirror I saw a ghost that looked just like me. I started running towards my room when I heard a voice just like in a trailer for a movie saying “this is Al in movie title ( which I don’t remember anymore). Then I woke up in my nightmare yelling, and then, I woke up in real life. I’ve been having nightmares lately but that’s another story.
This was an experiment.
Life Lesson : Technology makes everything easier. Use it, as long as you can live with strange post titles.
Actual Advice : For an experiment, it didn’t go so bad. I had to edit here and there, capitalize words and everything, but it makes it easier to follow a train of thought. Might use it again.
PROTIP : When speaking, make sure you sound like a robot. That’s the only way to get your cellphone to understand what you’re saying.
* Everything I said from “This is an experiment” to “This was an experiment” was not directly typed. I used my new cellphone, a Galaxy S II X and its voice recognition software.
Oh man, I tried to use mine yesterday. I must speak a non-standard dialect of English as it was not the experience I thought it would be.
Huh, that’s funny as mine works perfectly and I’m not even a native speaker. What software were you using?
So did your software type everything exactly as you said it? If your post title is anything to go by, then it didn’t work “perfectly”
The blog title is obviously something it didn’t pick up properly. I left it that way because I thought it was funny. But for the rest, it did a pretty good job, I think. I actually think I could use it to write some stuff, you know, just to let “ideas flow”. I would then edit the text and voilà.
In the end, it’s just software. It still needs human assistance, but it’s definitely a good tool.
Again, what software did you try?
It was Google’s text to speech function on my phone.