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Voice dictation is HUGELY useful but few people use it anymore. Most of us tried Dragon in years past, it sucked, and we gave up. I believe so much in this tha

Voice dictation is HUGELY useful but few people use it anymore. Most of us tried Dragon in years past, it sucked, and we gave up. I believe so much in this that I made a Siri->Windows bridge and dictate 80% of my text with it. (except that hash rocket) http://myechoapp.com/ http://myechoapp.com/

melling 11y ago
David Pogue has been using Dragon for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM John Siracusa used Dragon to write his 20,000 word Mac reviews. Developers have even used Dragon to assist with programming: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html I think voice accuracy is there but we need more integration with our apps and operating systems. Consistency would help too. Google recognizes "undo" while Dragon recognizes "scratch that"
- shanselman 11y ago
  Point taken but I would guess that they use nice headset mics and extensively train (and maintain and carry around) their voice databases. With Siri you can get 99% accuracy if you dicate punctuation and there's no training or fancy mics.
  - melling 11y ago
    I don't believe you need to extensively train the voice database. Most don't require any training to start. Don't think expensive microphones either. Maybe you should just read some of the links already posted.
    - throwaway049 11y ago
      Dragon strongly recommends training and using a good mic, but mine is good and cost 30 BP which I don't think is expensive in this context. Initial training takes about 15 minutes.
zepn 11y ago
A very niche use-case and an anecdote at that, but I guess every hospital radiology department in the UK employs at least one full-time transcriber who types radiologists' recorded notes. In the hospital I worked in, there were four full-time staff doing just this. Just in radiology. When I had this job for a couple of months most of a decade ago, it was obvious what would eventually happen to those jobs.
throwaway049 11y ago
I like the look of your product, but I think you are being disingenuous having this text on your main page "We don't store any of your words and your data never touches our disks.". I don't think you would put people off by making the Siri note in the privacy policy more prominent.
- shanselman 11y ago
  Good feedback. Not intending to be disingenuous. I'll talk to my partner about how we can make that clearer. It's intending to explain that our software (iOS, Windows, Cloud) never logs or saves any of the text.

melling 11y ago

David Pogue has been using Dragon for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GXX-SJuQM John Siracusa used Dragon to write his 20,000 word Mac reviews. Developers have even used Dragon to assist with programming: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html I think voice accuracy is there but we need more integration with our apps and operating systems. Consistency would help too. Google recognizes "undo" while Dragon recognizes "scratch that"

shanselman 11y ago
Point taken but I would guess that they use nice headset mics and extensively train (and maintain and carry around) their voice databases. With Siri you can get 99% accuracy if you dicate punctuation and there's no training or fancy mics.
- melling 11y ago
  I don't believe you need to extensively train the voice database. Most don't require any training to start. Don't think expensive microphones either. Maybe you should just read some of the links already posted.
  - throwaway049 11y ago
    Dragon strongly recommends training and using a good mic, but mine is good and cost 30 BP which I don't think is expensive in this context. Initial training takes about 15 minutes.

zepn 11y ago

A very niche use-case and an anecdote at that, but I guess every hospital radiology department in the UK employs at least one full-time transcriber who types radiologists' recorded notes. In the hospital I worked in, there were four full-time staff doing just this. Just in radiology. When I had this job for a couple of months most of a decade ago, it was obvious what would eventually happen to those jobs.

throwaway049 11y ago

I like the look of your product, but I think you are being disingenuous having this text on your main page "We don't store any of your words and your data never touches our disks.". I don't think you would put people off by making the Siri note in the privacy policy more prominent.

shanselman 11y ago
Good feedback. Not intending to be disingenuous. I'll talk to my partner about how we can make that clearer. It's intending to explain that our software (iOS, Windows, Cloud) never logs or saves any of the text.