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Voice recognition has become increasingly popular, and more options are becoming available over time. One can hope that with this increased popularity comes increased accuracy as well. Can you really dictate whole sentences to your Android device, without wasting more time than it's worth correcting mistakes? To find out, I took two major voice-enabled keyboards, and one lesser known one, and put them all to the test. Which one offers the best accuracy? Read on to find out!
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Use Google Voice's SMS functionality like it's a chat program on your Mac. VoiceMac is a free Mac desktop client for Google's free, USA-only phone service, and it offers you the SMS interface you've been looking for. There's an official Google Voice app for iPhone and another for Android, but so far Google hasn't released an official desktop app for Mac, Windows or Linux computers.
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The key to using your phone while driving is to reduce the number of steps it takes to make a call, send a text message, or check driving directions. The iPhone includes a few built-in features and apps that might be useful while driving, and there a few third-party apps that can help keep your eyes on the road.
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Nuance's iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon Search have been available for free download for over a year now. Since then, the company has added a few other similar voice to text apps to its line of desktop and mobile applications. It's even rumored that Nuance has partnered with Apple to infuse voice commands within the next iPhone.
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If you're an Android user, you've probably already heard that there's in-built voice recognition software and text-to-speech capability. But have you used it? Did you know it works pretty darn well? Android's voice software is easy to customise and is already ready to use RIGHT NOW on your Android phone. There's no need to scour the Android market for decent speech-to-text software because you already have access to it.
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When you do a lot of phone interviews that get published in text format on the web, transcribing audio files becomes a big part of one’s life. There are a lot of people that have the need to transcribe voice to text, such as doctor’s that record a log of office visits, journalists that conduct [...]
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