What is best dictation software
BEST Dictation Software - Voice Typing Google Docs 2020 (FREE!)
hey it's Hosea and today I have a great
tool to share with you and I'm hoping
that it's going to be a bit of a
surprise it seems to be in my experience
with everybody that I tell so this is
dictation software but it's free
dictation software and it comes from no
one other than Google so let's dive in
and take a look ok so what we're going
to do here is we're going to type in
Google Docs into a browser and find the
Google Docs website so if you click on
that it may take you to the home page
just click on go to Google Docs by the
way you'll need a Google account so if
you haven't done that for some reason
just sign up it's free and I realize
that you may use Microsoft Office and I
did for many years in fact I still have
Microsoft Office installed on my machine
but I also use OpenOffice because I like
the simpler interface on that but I also
started using Google Docs a few years
ago and really it was for the cloud
convenience now I know that Microsoft
Office now have office on the cloud but
I use Google Docs almost exclusively now
and there's one little handy feature
that many people don't seem to know
about at least when I tell them so
that's what I want to show you today
I'll just click on a blank document and
here's the clever feature you can go to
tools in the menu and go to voice typing
and all that you do there obviously if
you click on this you'll get a mic and
you start talking and the screen fills
up with words now I'm going to show you
that so you can see exactly how that
works but let me just say that I've used
dictation software over the years
because I used to type a lot and back
when I was doing a lot of freelancing
work years ago I had a lot of clients
and it meant spending almost a quarter
of my day replying to emails and I
thought I have to find a better way of
doing this so I invested in some
software that was called Dragon Dictate
or something like that it was it was a
dragon so
but I just can't remember exactly the
title of it and back then that was the
software that was the most advanced
software but you used to have to sit
there reading all these passages to
train it to train you to understand your
accent and they used to struggle with
mine so after about 20 minutes or half
an hour of repeating these passages over
and over again for the software to try
and map the way that I say things to the
words that were on the screen even after
that was done the accuracy of the
software in my case wasn't great now if
you have a voice for radio and it's
crystal clear then that kind of software
can were really well for you but in my
case I still have to do a lot of edits
now fast forward a few years Google's
speech engine is second to none now to
be fair I don't know what the dragon
people do these days it's been a long
time since I've used this software and
I'm sure that it's a lot better these
days but the one thing that we all know
is that Google has very deep pockets so
if they want to get something right they
have the money to spend and as I say the
speech engine is unbelievable
it's just super accurate even with me it
understands me finally someone or
something understands me and what's more
you don't have to train it you don't
have to sit there reading passages you
just switch it on you start talking and
it starts writing on the screen and
whether you're writing a book or a story
or an essay or you just replying to
emails this can be a great time-saver so
with all this said I'm now going to show
you how to do this but I'm gonna have to
turn my recording off and then do a new
recording where I'm not actually
speaking so that I can engage the mic
and talk and then you'll see the words
on the screen and I'll add this on the
video so let's go and do that now okay
so this is the new video and I just
realized that I can indeed actually
speak as I record the screen
I don't know why it was grayed out
before but all I've done is I've given
the document a title just anything
random so if your voice tool is actually
grayed out try that try giving it a
title and you can even try saving it and
then you actually have a real document
to work on so let me do this little test
I'm gonna click on voice typing and then
it says click to speak so it does give
you time you can sip your coffee and
just get ready and oh look English us
yeah you actually have different options
here okay so English United Kingdom
obviously it's going to be mine so I'm
gonna click on this and I'm gonna speak
hello this is a test of me speaking
okay so I've clicked the mic off and you
can see that you don't have to speak
like a robot like with the old dictation
software sometimes you would have to
speak like a robot and slowly and really
pronounce your words well in order for
the software to be able to understand
you with this you can go as quickly as
you want so I'm gonna click on the mic
again and I'm just gonna rifle through
more stuff okay today is Tuesday the
25th of November and I actually got that
wrong it's actually the 21st of November
and this is a video presentation of me
demoing this speech-to-text software
which is completely free and it comes as
part of Google Docs and I think everyone
should be using this if they are
interested in talking actually everyone
is interested in talking especially me
what I mean is anyone who is interested
in saving time will probably find this
software really useful because it
enables them to just speak there
answers and hey if you're writing a
novel then even this can help okay so
I've switched that off now you can see
that in terms of accuracy this thing is
about 99% accurate there's a little
thing here in there like it enables them
to just speak the answers that was
actually their answers but that's down
to my accent and the way I say things
and I suppose I could work on that a
little bit and speak a little bit more
clearly in fact if I spoke just a little
bit slower and made my words a little
bit clearer then it would probably save
me a lot of time editing but by
comparison you know that when you're
typing a paragraph like this on an email
and you have to think of your answer you
can be spending one or two minutes just
polishing that paragraph so even with
the important communications you can
have the basis of your conversation
don't underst it in just a few seconds
just like this and then you can edit
that and just add that finishing touch
but yeah super useful tool love it to
bits
I don't use any other dictation software
this is the only one that I use and the
only one that I need so I hope that you
can use this in your day to day stuff
because it really is handy and as I said
at the beginning it's free while you
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