Great Dictation Chrome App for laptop use - free
Hi,
A couple of days ago I wrote this post https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/juliako/blog/dictate-how-muc... about using dictation on the phone to help me with various blogging tasks. Thanks for all your replies to that! It's great to hit the top ten blogs list!
@Zach50 asked a question about what I used to dictate on the laptop so I thought that I would reply with a new blog post.
You have to use the Chrome browser for this method to work
I'm using a Chrome app called Voice In.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/voicein
This will work all over the WA website. I'm just using the free version which works on most of the websites that I want to use. I'm using it to write this blog post and I know I can use it to write articles on Site Content and Site Comments. It also works within WordPress.
It's not as sophisticated as some dictation packages but then of course it's absolutely free unless you want the upgrade. For my purposes, the free version works perfectly well although I do need to do some editing as I go along.
This is just one method. I would be really interested to know if anybody else is using something different and how well it's working for them.
Looking forward to seeing your replies!
Julia
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I wish I could use this type of feature. I can't even talk to Siri, or Bixby on my phone. I don't recon they can't understand me. The children tried to help me thru Google a few years ago, but it didn't have a clue. Part of being unusual lol
Hi, things have improved and you might want to give this one a go. I find it works better from me than either The Voice typing in Google Docs all my phone but it's not perfect and I did add it as I'm going along.
I listened to a fantastic book a couple of years ago called Invisible Women which is all about how decisions, products and tech made by men are often much more effective for men than for women. Sat navs and dictation apps were particular examples where the difference was very obvious. I think it is only much more recently that this has begun to be addressed with regard to dictation apps.
Hi Julia, Chrome seems to be great for people who can voice to help dictate to write a blog. Unfortunately, I can't benefit from that nor from Siri. Those automated bot programs do not understand my speech because of my deafness.
One thing that Chrome benefits me every Friday night, I can join Jay's training and also on other days, watch the replays with the closed captioning feature only available on Chrome Desktop. Its not available yet for iOS so cant use it on iOS but on my M1 MacBook Pro Chrome desktop has subtitled (captioning) on. It's been very helpful for people with a hearing loss or can't hear.
I typically use Safari, now I use Chrome mainly for videos or sites that do not have closed captioning features and it will caption everything. That is an awesome tool. It works better than the Speech to Text software that I have. Most of the time it spells words wrong and also doesn't make sense. Chrome captioning seems almost exact and very little typo errors.
Now I can watch Kyle's training using Chrome desktop captioning features. I just wanted to share with you a different perspective and alternative experience in using it for my hearing loss as compared to using it for voice dictation.
Thanks for sharing the highlights of what Google Chrome can do for voice dictation and also can do for people who need closed captioning if they have a hearing loss or are deaf like me.
Hi Brenda, thank you very much for your long and detailed answer.
I'm sorry to hear that Voice In is not a useful app for you you but I'm glad that you have found other things that are very helpful.
The captioning certainly sounds very useful. I can imagine it being useful for a number of different reasons.
I often use captions on videos when they include dogs or other animals on it, otherwise my puppy Buster starts going mad and hunting for the other animals.
I didn't know about the Chrome option for this and so I will explore that.
Thanks again,
Julia
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Hi Julia,
That’s an interesting tool to check out. I’ve been looking into dictation, and this tool sounds like a great fit. It definitely can help with creating blog posts (or with writing in general).
I’ll certainly check that out, as I’m sure it’s helped you out. Thank you for sharing.
Best,
-Eric