[Ipg-smz] Voice to text apps - Mac

[Allen Bernard]

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:49 PM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:

> What about otter.ai?
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Phil Shapiro
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2019 11:47 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] Voice to text apps - Mac
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> I remain a big fan of Voice Typing within Google Docs.
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> See my demonstration at
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d64ohzVlur4
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>   To activate Voice Typing, choose it from the Tools menu of Google Docs.
> You need to be using Chrome browser, though.
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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
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> The scope is confined to macOS, and I'm not in that world much these
> days, having moved to LinuxVille.
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> Ken Hess' suggestion of fn fn will be a suggestion.
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> Tom
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> On 6/19/19 9:37 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> > On 6/19/19 5:59 AM, Tom Henderson wrote:
> >> Fellow Guilders,
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> >> I know of an individual, a Mac user, whose RSI is getting bad and needs
> >> a macOS-poised voice/recording to text app.
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> >> 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.
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> > (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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