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To avoid wrist pain, I have started dictating quite a lot as a way to enter large amounts of text into my laptop and phone. It's really very good, especially on

by jefftk 6y ago

To avoid wrist pain, I have started dictating quite a lot as a way to enter large amounts of text into my laptop and phone. It's really very good, especially on android. Aside from the relatively large downside of it being noisy, I like it almost as much as I did typing.

gxqoz 6y ago
Do you find yourself going back and revising what you've dictated? When I type, I'm frequently pausing, going to other parts of the document, and deleting things I've already written. All of these actions I find more annoying when dictating. Not to mention some of the baffling Random capitalization Choices and, over/under insertion of punctuation. In general, I find dictation useful on my phone to take notes to myself. And maybe to send a message in a chat situation. But it just doesn't work for me for anything slightly more formal / long.
- 542354234235 6y ago
  Just say "dictated but not read" at the end and leave all the mistakes in there. Problem solved.
  - jefftk 6y ago
    I expect you're joking, but in case you're not I would consider that very rude in almost any situation. I don't always catch all of my mistakes, but I definitely read over and check for them.
    - gxqoz 6y ago
      I think a less terse disclaimer like "Dictated, apologies for mistakes" could help.
- jefftk 6y ago
  I do need to go back and fix problems, such as poor handling of punctuation on android and poor handling of capitalization on Mac. Fixing a few things is much less work on my wrists than typing the whole thing out, however, so I'm still much happier with speech to text. At this point I'm dictating even my (work) design docs and (personal) blog posts. I do think I'm a bit less fluent when using speech to text, because it's harder for me to jump around and make slight word choice improvements, but not by much?
mattcaldwell 6y ago
Dictating is a much easier task, since it doesn't necessarily require comprehension.
- jefftk 6y ago
  Dictating in the sense of entering text, as one might dictate to a secretary. Definitely involving comprehension. (For example, I dictated this reply)

by jefftk 6y ago

gxqoz 6y ago

Do you find yourself going back and revising what you've dictated? When I type, I'm frequently pausing, going to other parts of the document, and deleting things I've already written. All of these actions I find more annoying when dictating. Not to mention some of the baffling Random capitalization Choices and, over/under insertion of punctuation. In general, I find dictation useful on my phone to take notes to myself. And maybe to send a message in a chat situation. But it just doesn't work for me for anything slightly more formal / long.

542354234235 6y ago
Just say "dictated but not read" at the end and leave all the mistakes in there. Problem solved.
- jefftk 6y ago
  I expect you're joking, but in case you're not I would consider that very rude in almost any situation. I don't always catch all of my mistakes, but I definitely read over and check for them.
  - gxqoz 6y ago
    I think a less terse disclaimer like "Dictated, apologies for mistakes" could help.
jefftk 6y ago
I do need to go back and fix problems, such as poor handling of punctuation on android and poor handling of capitalization on Mac. Fixing a few things is much less work on my wrists than typing the whole thing out, however, so I'm still much happier with speech to text. At this point I'm dictating even my (work) design docs and (personal) blog posts. I do think I'm a bit less fluent when using speech to text, because it's harder for me to jump around and make slight word choice improvements, but not by much?

mattcaldwell 6y ago

Dictating is a much easier task, since it doesn't necessarily require comprehension.

jefftk 6y ago
Dictating in the sense of entering text, as one might dictate to a secretary. Definitely involving comprehension. (For example, I dictated this reply)