voice to text? | Pad Patter 17 Sept

My dd uses nothing but that, but I'm an epic fail.

 

I use text every once in awhile and I agree that you have to speak clearly and slowly to avoid mistakes. Today I ran into a weird quirk. I said dash an it typed “dash”instead of a hyphen. So…I said hyphen and it wrote “dash”!
Also, I don’t understand why it won’t type too, only to. I hope texting will get better because it is handy.

 

I’ve never tried it and like @KimJ I haven’t even set up Siri either.

 

I use it from my Apple Watch occasionally when I need to answer a message but don't have my phone on me. It's super frustrating sometimes unless it's just a one word answer lol. I much prefer just typing.

 

I had this in my old Samsung, and it happened a lot of this things you all mentioned, the only point is that I used when messaging in Portuguese, never tried in English...it would be fun! then I 've changed to a new model of Samsung and couldn't find this option...

 

LOL!!! Every once in a blue moon I'll use voice to text but sometimes I get confused and used the recording one. LOL!!!!

 

I use it once in a while, but it almost requires just as much work to fix all of the errors as it would to just type it out in the first place (at least for me, lol).

 

I do from my car- but it's a freakin computer on wheels so it does a great job usually. However, when I say my son's name DECLAN it always thinks I'm saying JACKLIN. My mom does from her phone & it's hilarious. She'll do it while driving usually too and in between her giant run on message, it will also type out her cursing to other drivers and such. I just think it's funny & need to screenshot some of them to save! lol!

 

Nope. I've thought about it, and tried it a few times, but I type faster and text pretty fast so correcting takes too long.

I have used it a few times in the car, and there's always random errors, not to/too, but Nick's name ends up...not Nick.

 

Typically? Country. Or County.

 

I also use swipe keyboards on my phone. Both Samsung and Google's keyboards do it on Android phones. (There are others, but I don't bother with them anymore now that the pre-installed keyboards can do it). They're a lot faster than regular typing, but they also need some fixing afterward because they don't always get the words right. For short things like texts it's easier to use the swipe keyboard. And for long things I just wait until I'm on my computer and can type with a real keyboard. But there's a sweet spot in the middle where I love using talk-to-text on my phone. If I need to write a paragraph or so, I often use the voice typing function. It does need fixing afterward, but it's still faster than typing it. Punctuation and starting a new line are the worst!

 

The only time I use voice to text is when I'm driving and need to send a quick text. My car has a button on the steering wheel that activates Siri and then I talk and she'll read it back to me before sending. That seems to work pretty well, but I mostly only send things like "I'm on my way" or other short things. If I'm not driving I always prefer to type our my message with my thumbs. Lol. I'm probably slower that way, but it's just my habit.

 

Never use it. Not even sure it would work that well for me since I have a lisp that is noticeable at times. Unfortunately, the worst letters for me are "p" and "s". It was really bad during all of my dental issues and is getting better now that I have a full set of teeth again.

But then I don't live on my phone all the time either. The few texts I send I can type them out.

 

I sometimes use it in the computer, but depending on how tired I am, my English confuses the dictation thingy.... BUT.... on texting? both iMessage and WhatsApp have the choice of recording the message......
Sarita keeps making jokes about how young people (meaning under under 35ish, she is 25) type one way, and us (old people , she means!) do it with one finger LOL, and how people do NOT like 20 minutes voice messages...... so, not to record long messages to her friends or my nieces or God Daughters because they tend not to listen to it all..... anyway, for me, having issues with reading and writing, the voice message (recorded) is the very best option (as some of you know!!!) anyway,
here is a happy but needing love lil Bart!!!