I used voice dictation and it felt weird ✍️
By following the new app and tech trends, I often see things pass by as voice notes and voice dictation. Some people I hear say it's very useful. But I never tried it myself.
Ok, I admit, I have used Siri voice dictation before via my iPhone, but I always found the results to be somewhat hit and miss. It's never completely as I speak, and with names, it even gets worse.
For a long time, I had an app for voice dictation installed on my phone, called Superwhisper. The nice thing about Superwhisper is that you can download a model on your device, so everything of processing is done on your device. Of course, if it's powerful enough.
But my iPhone is, and so yesterday, I decided to give it a try. Before starting a voice recording, I tweaked the output to keep as much of the original text as possible and only change spelling and wording if needed.
At first, it felt awkward speaking to my device. Perhaps also, as I needed to think about what I wanted it to record. So there were a lot of silences, but this allowed me to process my thoughts. The nice thing about speaking to a device is that it doesn't judge you by the speed or what you say. It just waits and starts processing once you're ready.
The output was good. A few hiccups here and there, but much better than anything I've used before. And Superwhisper made it easy to share the output to my other apps so I could tweak and use it.
Overall, this was a nice experiment, but I'm not 100% convinced it's for me.
Sure, the output is good, but it's more that I need to get used to speaking to my phone, as well as when I can use it. There aren't a lot of moments in the day when I'm alone, and having others around when I talk to my phone feels weird.
Maybe I need to do some more testing.
Do you use voice dictation or voice apps? And if so, how and when?
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