Δευτέρα 13 Ιουνίου 2016

First use of VOICE TYPING in a Google Document

The service can be used only in Google Chromium.
You open a Google Document and you click
tools
voice typing
then you choose the language ( I prefer US English)
and you click the microphone icon.
It works pretty well if you have a good microphone,
I personally used an external one.

The short text I dictated was from GEORGE ORWELL's book,
"Animal Farm".

Mr. Jones common of the manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but I was too drunk to remember this to shut the pump house. With a ring of light from his Lantern dancing
pop-holes
from side to side, he lost across the yard taking off his boots at the back door, Drew himself
Lurched kicking
a last glass of beer from the bottle in the gallery, and made his way up to bed, when mrs.
scullery
Jones was already snoring.


As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone around during the day at all major commands the prize medal Wine Bar, have had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to
Middle white boar
communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they should all meet in the Big Barn as soon as mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Of major (so he was always cold
called
coming through so the name under which he could being exhibited was Willingdon. But I just
beauty
was so highly regarded on the farm but everyone was quite ready to lose an hour sleep in order to hear what he had to say.


At the end of The Big Barn, on a sort of raised platform, major was already ensconced on his
   one
bed of straw, under the lantern which hung from a beam. He was 12 years old and had lately grown rather Stout but he was still a majestic looking bigger, with them a Wise and
   pig
benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his touches have never being cut. Before
tusses
long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable under their different Fashions. First game the three dogs, Blue Bell, Jessie, and picture and then the
Pincher
picture will settle down in the scroll immediately in front of the platform. The hens first
Pigs straw
themselves on the windowsills, the pigeons flattered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows
fluttered
lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud. The to cart horses, boxer and clover,
two
came in to get them walking very slowly and setting down their vast Harry who's with great
Together hairy hoofs
care less there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. Call them was a start
       lest Clover   stout
motherly man approaching middle life, who have never quite got her figure back after her for
mare four
food.
foals


WORD COUNT 404

The words in red contain a spelling error, or are completely wrong.
The words in blue are the ones that the service SHOULD HAVE TYPED INSTEAD.
As I'm a non-native speaker of English, I suppose I've mispronounced a few.


The service isn't flawless, but it looked like a miracle to me!
I sort of felt like, Scotty, on the spaceship Enterprise, dictating to my computer!
Watch him trying to dictate to a pre-voice typing one
on youtube!


There are a lot of extra things  you can do with the text (e.g edit your text), apart from dictating
that you can see here:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226?hl=en