[Ipg-smz] Voice to text apps - Mac

Christine Hall christine at fossforce.com
Wed Jun 19 16:27:49 UTC 2019


There you go. That means it'll work on any platform -- even phones, I'm 
figuring.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
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On 6/19/19 11:47 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote:
> 
> I remain a big fan of Voice Typing within Google Docs.
> 
> See my demonstration at
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d64ohzVlur4
> 
>    To activate Voice Typing, choose it from the Tools menu of Google 
> Docs.  You need to be using Chrome browser, though.
> 
>                      Phil
> 
> 
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> *From: *"thenderson" <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
> *To: *"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:41:03 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Ipg-smz] Voice to text apps - Mac
> 
> The scope is confined to macOS, and I'm not in that world much these
> days, having moved to LinuxVille.
> 
> Ken Hess' suggestion of fn fn will be a suggestion.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 6/19/19 9:37 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
>  > On 6/19/19 5:59 AM, Tom Henderson wrote:
>  >> Fellow Guilders,
>  >>
>  >> I know of an individual, a Mac user, whose RSI is getting bad and needs
>  >> a macOS-poised voice/recording to text app.
>  >>
>  >> Any recommendations?
>  >  From my significant other editor, the Mac version of Dragon sucks.  I'm
>  > not surprised Apple would be filling that hole.  She uses Dragon on
>  > Windows 95 extensively.  Her business is technical translating from a
>  > handful of Eurpoean languages to English, so having speech-to-text that
>  > doesn't suck is a real output booster.
>  >
>  > (What is really funny is when she lapses into what I call Dragon-speak
>  > at dinner.  I TRY not to laugh...)
>  >
>  >
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