Hi folks, this post is an experiment – I'm posting from my iPad and I'm dictating by voice! Not the easiest thing in the world for me because I'm not used to it. Thanks to the people who recommended Blogsy – I'm using that too. I'm just going to see how this works. Hopefully in the next few days I'll get to be a little better at it than I am now.
Mike
Sweet! Congrats on the successful blog post, Mike. I might have to give it a whirl, too.
Edie
Packing up for the annual trip to MO Ozarks.
Posted by: Edie Howe | Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 11:44 PM
The audio reproduction is excellent!
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 11:55 PM
Hi Mike.
I have bad news - the experiment didn't work! Your entry didn't post, the dictation didn't take, and there's nothing here for me to comment on. I wish you better luck next time, but then if none of this worked, you'll never know I've wished you well.
Matt
Posted by: Matt Greer | Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 01:10 AM
Have you looked at Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad.. might help you a little bit!
Posted by: Richard K | Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 04:59 AM
That works then. Have a good trip Mike, enjoy yourself.
Posted by: Ray | Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 07:36 AM
Mike:
Thank you for the link to blogsy.
Posted by: Steve G, Mendocino | Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 02:06 PM
I recently started using a Windows-based speech recognition program. I have found it useful, and reasonably accurate on non-specialized vocabulary. The interesting thing is that I have found that I do not speak and write in the same style. I find that my speaking style has many more parentheticals and discursions within a sentence. So I have been dictating and then editing heavily. Time saver? Well I think once I get myself trained to speak a well-written paragraph, the answer will be an unqualified "maybe." ;-)
Posted by: Benjamin Marks | Friday, 26 September 2014 at 05:17 AM
I've tried speech recognition and found it difficult for me. I have to close my eyes and really concentrate to compose my speech. It's strange.
Yet when I type, it all seems to flow. I hate to admit it, but my thought processes seem to go as slowly as my typing. Yet it works. As I said, when I'm typing I hardly have to stop to think - it just flows out.
I think I probably need to try harder with the speech recognition - Dragon of course. When I have time.
Posted by: Peter Croft | Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 10:07 PM