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What's a Good Talk to Text Software App for Windows for Writers?
Hi all. Do you ever wish writing (tapping away on your keyboard) could be done much faster? I'm a fairly fast typer and can knock out 100 words in about 60 seconds if I know what it is I want to say and have something to say I can just let my fingers do the work and within about 30-60 seconds hey presto I've created about 100 words. But sometimes I could talk it out much faster than that!
I know there are some speech recognition talk to text apps out there like Dragon Naturally but I've never really used it much! I did have a go at it a long time ago but can't remember why exactly but never continued using it for some reason. Also I think it didn't get every word perfectly and would lag sometimes as well and not put the text until sometime after I've said it and end up missing some words or a whole sentence or something.
I'm just wondering though if there's something else out there these days that can do that for you and if you can recommend anything to me if that's the sort of thing you use in your freelance work or webmastering, blogging, content writing tasks etc.
I have a touch screen PC but I've disabled touch screen ability as its not really needed, I prefer to use a mouse and it uses less ram with it off anyway so a touch screen keyboard with intelligent text control like you have on iPhones and smartphones today where you can literally just swipe your finger around isn't an option for me either.
I know you can use Windows Ease of Access Speech Recognition tool to control your computer and do speech to text for you as well. But I think I need a mic or headset with mic as mines built into my PC (Allinone touchscreen) and you need to move right up to it for it to hear your voice or talk quite loud and I'm not up for that. 
I'm up for mumbling almost incoherently and it understanding every word I say perfectly! Not that I talk like that but it needs to be able to account for that. And that's why I never carried on using them because they just kept making too many mistakes.
Is there any such good app around like that today that has that level of sophistication or is it the same with any in that you need to talk quite loud and clear and fairly slow for it to get all the words right each time?
I get that you will still need to proof read the text after and format it yourself that's fine. But if I can find something I can speak into quite quickly and it do a good job of converting my speech into words into a text file then that could up my game!
What about you? Have you ever used or do you use speech to text apps? Or are you just happy bashing it out on the keyboard? Or do you have any other alternative methods of content creation that doesn't involve 3rd parties or using a keyboard?
We need to invent something new don't you think!?
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TommyCarey
My friend had the dragon software and it was pretty cool, but I couldn't get use to it and I think I lowered my normal 100-105 words per minute on my keyboard to around 45-50 when talking. I think the main problem I had was trying to backspace or edit something that didn't come our correctly. I would see something that needed to be edited and pause for a second because I had to think of what the command was in order to edit the mistake.
I think that if I were to sit down for a week and hash out a lot of content using the software I'd be able to get use to it. But I do prefer typing over talking to my computer lol
I have seen some posts online about people using this type of software/apps in order to do content writing for their clients. I think this would be best for new content writers or people who aren't as good behind a keyboard since they'll have to use it a lot and they can probably pick it up quicker than me who has been smashing on keys for the last 20 years
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Razzy I've gotten so used to typing out what I'm thinking that I feel I can do it quicker with my hands than talking into a microphone. My friend had the dragon software and it was pretty cool, but I couldn't get use to it and I think I lowered my normal 100-105 words per minute on my keyboard to around 45-50 when talking. I think the main problem I had was trying to backspace or edit something that didn't come our correctly. I would see something that needed to be edited and pause for a second because I had to think of what the command was in order to edit the mistake. I think that if I were to sit down for a week and hash out a lot of content using the software I'd be able to get use to it. But I do prefer typing over talking to my computer lol :D I can think of the entire sentence in my head and it goes through my fingers. I can quickly edit anything without looking down for the back space key since I've been doing this for a while. I have seen some posts online about people using this type of software/apps in order to do content writing for their clients. I think this would be best for new content writers or people who aren't as good behind a keyboard since they'll have to use it a lot and they can probably pick it up quicker than me who has been smashing on keys for the last 20 years :D Thanks, Razzy
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